Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Section 6 POCSO amendment inapplicable retrospectively; IPC life imprisonment stands for aggravated child rape : SC
The Supreme Court ruled that the 2019 amendment to Section 6 of the POCSO Act cannot be applied to offences committed before its enactment, so the higher punishment under the IPC - life imprisonment - remains. This prevents convicted child rapists from benefiting from the reduced sentence provision and clarifies the hierarchy of punishments for such offences.