Case Law Analysis
|Madhya Pradesh High Court
POCSO Act | Conviction Based on Unverified Scholar Register Age Entry Invalid: MP HC Suspends Sentence
The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that a conviction under the POCSO Act cannot rely on an unverified age entry in a scholar register. The court suspended the sentence of the appellant, who had served over four years, emphasizing that age must be proven by a verifiable source to sustain a conviction under POCSO.