India, Oct. 10 -- The Bombay High Court has directed the Mumbai Police not to file a chargesheet against a 15-year-old girl booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for allegedly sending sexually suggestive messages to her classmate and her mother.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad questioned the police's decision to apply the POCSO Act in a case involving two minors. "Why has the police registered the case under POCSO? There is no POCSO," the bench observed, highlighting the overreach in the investigation.

The court was hearing a petition filed by the accused girl through her father, seeking to quash the FIR registered by the Kandivali police on July 10. The ...