Woman booked under POCSO in Kerala for obscene social media post about stepdaughter

Angry with her husband, a 20-year-old woman allegedly used his social media account to put up a obscene post against his 11-year-old daughter from an earlier marriage. A POCSO case was registered against the woman, police said.

On seeing the post, the 44-year-old man’s daughter, accompained by her grandmother, lodged a complaint with the police in Thodupuzha area of Idukki district of the state which on investigating the matter found that it was the complainant’s stepmother who was allegedly responsible for it.

On being questioned, the woman admitted what she had done and said that she put up the post in a fit of anger following a fight with her husband over the legitimacy of their 6-month-old baby, an officer of Thodupuzha police station, where the FIR was registered said.