Explanation:

Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act

• The Act has been enacted to protect children from offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and pornography.

•  It will provide establishment of Special Courts for trial of such offences and related matters and incidents.

• The Ministry of Women and Child Development championed the introduction of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.

• The Act was amended in 2019, to make provisions for enhancement of punishments for various offences so as to deter the perpetrators and ensure safety, security and dignified childhood for a child.

• The Act is gender neutral and regards the best interests and welfare of the child as a matter of paramount importance at every stage so as to ensure the healthy physical, emotional, intellectual and social development of the child.

• Whoever commits penetrative sexual assault on a child below sixteen years of age shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years.

• However, it may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of natural life of that person, and shall also be liable to fine.

Hence only statement 1st is correct.