{"id":93824,"date":"2026-02-25T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/can-a-pocso-case-be-dropped-after-couple-marries-uttarakhand-hc-explains\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:36:18","slug":"can-a-pocso-case-be-dropped-after-couple-marries-uttarakhand-hc-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/can-a-pocso-case-be-dropped-after-couple-marries-uttarakhand-hc-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a POCSO case be dropped after couple marries? Uttarakhand HC explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttarakhand High Court quashed POCSO proceedings against a 21-year-old man after he lawfully married the 17-year-old victim. The court cited their peaceful cohabitation and the woman&#8217;s pregnancy, deeming continuation of the case a denial of justice. This decision emphasizes compassion and practicality in specific post-marriage scenarios.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttarakhand High Court quashed POCSO proceedings against a 21-year-old man after he lawfully married the 17-year-old victim. The court cited their peaceful cohabitation and the woman&#8217;s pregnancy, deeming continuation of the case a denial of justice. This decision emphasizes compassion and practicality in specific post-marriage scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":93825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}