the Centre had earlier introduced a bill to amend POCSO Act, 2012 in May earlier this year in an attempt to introduce the death penalty for child rapists, but the bill had lapsed following the dissolution of the Lok Sabha.
A major communications campaign on TV, radio, print, local and social media would be carried out, similar to PM Modi's Swachch Bharat Mission in 2016, in which a mass movement was initiated with celebrities mobilised to generate awareness for the campaign.
The mother has blamed her journalist cousin, Mushtaq Ahmed, a journalist with Hindi daily Hindustan in Gonda, for allegedly convincing her to pull off the ‘fraud’