Sexual Offences Questions and Answers

Q: Within what time the trial under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act should ideally be completed ?

The trial should be completed within 1 year from the date of taking cognizance.Section 35(2) of the POCSO Act requires the Special Court to complete the trial, as far as possible, within a period of one year from the date of taking cognizance of the offence. Section 35(1) separately requires the child's evidence to be recorded within thirty days of cognizance.The Act does not count from the FIR or the charge sheet, and it does set a time limit.

Q: Disclosure of identity of a victim of rape is punishable under

It is punishable under Section 228A, IPC.Section 228A, inserted in 1983, punishes anyone who prints or publishes the name or any matter that may make known the identity of a victim of rape and certain related offences, with imprisonment up to two years and fine.Section 228 punishes intentional insult or interruption to a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding, and Section 229 personation of a juror or assessor. Section 376D deals with gang rape itself, not disclosure of the victim's identity.

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Within what time the trial under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act should ideally be completed ?

A.3 months from FIR
B.6 months from filing of charge sheet
C.1 year from the date of taking cognizance
D.No time limit specified

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2025,

Answer: C

The trial should be completed within 1 year from the date of taking cognizance.

Section 35(2) of the POCSO Act requires the Special Court to complete the trial, as far as possible, within a period of one year from the date of taking cognizance of the offence. Section 35(1) separately requires the child's evidence to be recorded within thirty days of cognizance.

The Act does not count from the FIR or the charge sheet, and it does set a time limit.

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Disclosure of identity of a victim of rape is punishable under

A.Section 376 D, IPC
B.Section 229, IPC
C.Section 228, IPC
D.Section 228A, IPC

Exam Year(s)

Tripura Public Service Commission - 2019,

Answer: D

It is punishable under Section 228A, IPC.

Section 228A, inserted in 1983, punishes anyone who prints or publishes the name or any matter that may make known the identity of a victim of rape and certain related offences, with imprisonment up to two years and fine.

Section 228 punishes intentional insult or interruption to a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding, and Section 229 personation of a juror or assessor. Section 376D deals with gang rape itself, not disclosure of the victim's identity.

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23.

Can a woman be prosecuted for gang rape ?

A.Occasionally
B.As the case demands
C.Not at all
D.When she is a party to it

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The key holds that a woman cannot be prosecuted for gang rape at all. Under section 376(2)(g) of the Penal Code as it stood, gang rape was committed by a group of persons acting in furtherance of a common intention, but the offence of rape itself is defined in section 375 as an act that only a man can commit, so a woman cannot be the principal offender or be deemed to have committed gang rape. The options saying occasionally, as the case demands, or when she is a party to it are not what the key accepts. The answer is not at all.

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B a married man commits sex with C a girl child of 16 years with her consent. What offence B has committed ?

A.Adultery
B.Rape
C.No offence
D.Sexual outraging

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013,

Answer: B

B has committed rape. Under the law as it stood in 2013, as amended in that year, sexual intercourse with a girl below eighteen is rape whether or not she consents, because a girl of sixteen cannot give a valid consent in law. It is not adultery, which concerns the wife of another man, and sexual outraging is not the offence for intercourse. “No offence” is wrong for the same reason, since her consent has no legal effect.

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