The Juvenile Courts only try juvenile offenders. If an adult commits any crime on a child, it is tried in a regular court of law.
In India, the rape laws are inadequate to cover male rape or rape of a male child. The position of the Juvenile Justice Act is also ambiguous and inadequate. Therefore if there is penetration, most of the male CSA cases gets tried under the anti-sodomy section 377 of IPC. If there is no penetration, then other provisions of the IPC,lke those pertaining to hurt, grevious hurt etc are invoked. But as I mentioned earlier, these are inadequate. What is ffrustrating for a lot of child rights activists is the fact that in spite of having made a commitment to enact adequate laws against CSA under the Convention for the Rights of the Child (CRC), the government has consistently refused to act on it and has shown what can only be described as an allaling insensitivity. While the Section 377 was challenged in the Delhi High Court, one of the reasons for not asking a repeal of the law, but merely a reading down so that it does not cover private adult consensual sex, is expressly this. If 377 goes lock stock and barrrel, there would be very little left to prosecute male CSA or male rape with. The one thing that is clear in India law is the age of consent. It is the age at which a person legally becomes eligible to give consent to have sex. And that age is 18, and it comes from our contracts laws. Best, Aditya B 2009/5/8 shatru_lovely <shatru_lov...@yahoo.in> > > > Please let me know how child sexual abuse in case of a boy is defined in > India. What is the minimum and maximum punishment for this? Is this handled > by a normal criminal court? Or as it is related to a child it is handled by > Juvenile court? > > > -- Do not print this mail unless really necessary. Save paper, save trees..!! If you loose your way while SCUBA diving, the safest direction to head for is UP..!!!
