Boy accused in POCSO case released after negative DNA test results
The Hindu
Student was jailed after a girl alleged that he abused her
The police were left with egg on their face when an 18-year-old higher secondary student walked out of Tirur sub-jail on Saturday after 35 days of incarceration. He was jailed in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) case after a 17-year-old schoolgirl alleged that he had raped and impregnated her. A DNA examination conducted on the girl proved that the boy was not responsible for her pregnancy. The POCSO court which had ordered that he be put behind the bars ordered his release following this. The Plus-Two student from Tennala, near Tirurangadi, said that he knew the girl for about a year from school but had not abused her. He said he underwent severe mental trauma after being wrongly arraigned in a POCSO case.
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