Rethinking the Criminalisation of Adolescent Love

The Supreme Court’s May 2025 judgment in Re: Right to Privacy of Adolescents marks a rare moment of introspection within India’s legal system. By withholding sentencing in a POCSO conviction involving a consensual adolescent relationship, the Court recognized what many have long argued: that the law’s one-size-fits-all approach fails the very people it aims to … Read more