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    ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL OFFENCES (POCSO) ACT
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2016) Raha, Swagata; Giliyal, Anuroopa iyal; Sajjanshetty, Geeta
    The Act was enacted to protect children from offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography and to provide a child-friendly system for the trial of these offences. Data from a study undertaken by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on ‘Child Abuse’ in 2007 had revealed that 53.22% of children had faced one or more forms of sexual abuse.