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Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court recently suspended life sentence of a man convicted under POCSO Act, holding that while consent of a minor is legally irrelevant, circumstances in which the admitted adolescent relationship developed raise issues requiring consideration at the final hearing of the appeal.

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