Two years after a Tamil Nadu man, charged under the Pocso Act for sexually assaulting a minor, was acquitted by a trial court, the Madras High Court has set aside the verdict after finding the earlier acquittal was owing to a typo which rendered "semen" to "semman" (red soil in Tamil).

Justice P. Velmurugan, earlier this month, set aside the trial court judgment and sentenced the accused to life imprisonment after hearing the appeal of the mother of the child.