Nagpur, Sept. 30 -- The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that an FIR registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cannot be quashed merely because the minor survivor later married the accused and gave birth to his child.
A division bench comprising Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nandesh Deshpande on September 27 rejected a criminal application filed by M. A. Beigh and two family members seeking to quash the POCSO and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita cases registered against them.
The facts, as presented before the court, indicate that Beigh married the girl on June 2, 2024, when she was 17, and the girl later gave birth to a baby boy in May 2025.
The FIR was lodged after the police, upon learning o...