Ballia POCSO Court Hands 25-Year Jail Term to Driver for Creating AI Image of Schoolgirl

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2025_05_07_d1ed2558
Date source: llm_extracted_from_article_text
Country: India
Platform: Messaging App
Incident type: Non Consensual Synthetic Image
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Non Consensual Imagery Harassment Reputational Harm

Topics

Deepfake Synthetic Image Image Manipulation Digital Identity Abuse

Summary

A special POCSO court in Ballia found school transport driver Sanjeet Kumar guilty of using an artificial intelligence application to create an obscene image of a Class 8 student and circulating the altered image on WhatsApp. The victim’s family discovered the fabricated material and the girl’s father filed a police complaint on 2025-05-07.

The court convicted Kumar under Section 6 of the POCSO Act and sentenced him to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000, plus related penal assessments totaling Rs 55,000; non-payment would lead to additional imprisonment. Prosecutors presented digital forensic evidence and witness statements during the trial.

Sources

Ballia POCSO Court Hands 25-Year Jail Term to Driver for Creating AI Image of Schoolgirl - The 420.in

the420.in · 2026-11-04 · Primary