Two men have been sent to jail for repeatedly gang-raping a minor with the court asking the Delhi police chief to ensure that the perpetrators of sexual crimes against children be booked in future under a newly-enacted stringent law on such offences.        

The court asked the Delhi police commissioner to book such offenders under the newly enacted special law, namely the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, which came into force from November 14, 2012 and aims to protect minor (below the age of 18 years) from offences of sexual assault, harassment and pornography.        

The court, in its order, emphasised the need to conduct the probe in such cases by the police in accordance with the provisions of the special act and observed that the same is not being followed in the cases of sexual offence against children.