Case Law Analysis
|Calcutta High Court
POCSO Act | Reasonable Doubt Established by Implausible Public Setting & Lack of Eyewitnesses : Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court acquitted an accused under the POCSO Act after finding the victim’s account of being dragged 500 meters through a school-day thoroughfare implausible without a single witness. The ruling underscores that prosecutorial failure to account for public visibility and corroborative evidence can fatally undermine even serious sexual offense charges, reshaping how courts assess credibility in POCSO cases where forensic evidence is inconclusive.