Recent rulings by the judiciary in Mumbai and Pune have resulted in the acquittal of one defendant and the affirmation of a life sentence for another in separate cases involving the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

孟買與浦那近期由司法部門作出的裁決，在兩起涉及《保護兒童免受性犯罪法》（POCSO Act）的獨立案件中，結果為一名被告獲判無罪，另一名則被維持終身監禁。

In the first instance, a special POCSO court acquitted a 31-year-old male regarding allegations originating in 2013. The prosecution asserted that the defendant, alongside five juveniles, had subjected a 14-year-old male to physical and sexual assault and unauthorized filming. However, the court determined that the evidentiary threshold for conviction was not met. Specifically, the failure to maintain a rigorous chain of custody for electronic evidence and the absence of hash value calculations rendered the digital proofs inadmissible. Furthermore, the court noted a fifteen-day latency in the filing of the First Information Report (FIR) and observed that the victim's testimony contained material discrepancies and lacked corroboration, as the defendant was neither visible nor audible in the submitted video evidence.

在第一起案件中，一個 POCSO 特別法庭就 2013 年的指控判決一名 31 歲男性無罪。檢方主張被告與五名青少年共同對一名 14 歲男性進行肢體與性侵害，並進行非法拍攝。然而，法院認定證據未達到定罪的門檻。具體而言，由於電子證據未能維持嚴格的保管鏈且缺乏雜湊值（hash value）計算，導致數位證據不被採信。此外，法院注意到提交初步調查報告（FIR）延遲了 15 天，並觀察到受害者的證詞存在重大分歧且缺乏佐證，因為在提交的影片證據中，被告既不可見亦不可聞。

Conversely, the Bombay High Court upheld the life imprisonment of a male convicted of raping his 17-year-old daughter in 2015. The defense contended that the victim's failure to disclose the incident to a third-party shopkeeper immediately following the event undermined the credibility of her testimony. The court rejected this hypothesis, positing that the familial nature of the offense would logically preclude immediate disclosure to a stranger. The judiciary found the victim's detailed account to be consistent with her magistrate statements and corroborated by familial testimony. The court further dismissed the defendant's claim of a conspiracy involving his spouse, citing a lack of evidence to support the assertion of a false implication.

相反地，孟買高等法院維持了一名男性因 2015 年強姦其 17 歲女兒而被判處終身監禁的原判。辯方主張受害者在事發後未立即向第三方店主披露，這削弱了其證詞的可信度。法院駁回了此項假設，認為由於該犯罪屬於家庭內部性質，邏輯上會排除立即向陌生人披露的可能性。法院發現受害者詳細的陳述與其在治安法官前的陳述一致，並得到家族成員證詞的佐證。法院進一步駁回了被告關於其配偶參與陰謀的說法，理由是缺乏證據支持被誣陷的主張。

The two cases illustrate the critical role of evidentiary integrity and the judicial evaluation of victim testimony in determining legal outcomes under the POCSO Act.

這兩起案件說明了在 POCSO 法案下，證據的完整性以及法院對受害者證詞的評估，在決定法律結果中起著至關重要的作用。