No skin-to-skin contact: 'Outrageous' India sexual assault order struck down

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In December 2016, a 39-year-old man was accused of groping a 12-year-old girl. The child's mother had alleged that he had lured her daughter to his home where he pressed her breast and tried to remove her pyjama bottom.

Child sexual abuse is a major problem in India with tens of thousands of cases reported every year

Activists and legal experts said it would set a "dangerous precedent" and asked the top court to strike it down.In its ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court bench said the courts must look at the sexual intent and not whether there was skin-to-skin contact. A trial court had convicted him for sexually assaulting a child under the stringent Pocso Act and handed him a three-year jail sentence.

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