Chronological POCSO Judgments Dataset: Pre-COVID Compilation (2012 - 2020)

The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was an important legislation that was enacted in India in 2012. It aims to safeguard children from sexual exploitation through various enforcement and legal redressal mechanisms. This dataset has been scraped from eCourts India Services using Python script which uses Selenium. We have mined apex and high courts’ judgements, which mentioned the POCSO Act and its respective sections. We have chronologically scraped POCSO judgements from 2012 to 2020 in the corpus. This dataset aims to facilitate a vested array of upcoming studies to understand legal trends within the premise of POCSO judgements using language processing techniques. Documentation within this dataset dates to the pre-COVID pandemic period, enabling legal enthusiasts to study judicial POCSO patterns before the onset of COVID in India.

《防止儿童性侵犯法》（POCSO）系一项于2012年在印度颁布的重要立法，旨在通过多种执法和法律救济机制保护儿童免受性剥削。本数据集系利用Python脚本结合Selenium技术从eCourts India Services网站爬取而成。我们对最高法院和高级法院涉及POCSO法案及其相关条款的判决进行了挖掘。在数据集中，我们按时间顺序爬取了2012年至2020年期间的POCSO判决。本数据集旨在为未来研究提供丰富的资源，以利用语言处理技术理解POCSO判决背景下的法律趋势。数据集中的文件记录均属于COVID-19大流行前期的资料，使得法律爱好者得以在印度COVID-19疫情爆发前研究司法领域的POCSO模式。