law: Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
  30. Presumption of
  
  culpable mental state.-
  1.  
  
    In
  
  any prosecution for any offence under this Act which requires a culpable mental
  
  state on the part of the accused, the Special Court shall presume the existence
  
  of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the
  
  fact that he had no such mental state with respect to the act charged as an
  
  offence in that prosecution.
  2.  
  
    For
  
  the purposes of this section, a fact is said to be proved only when the Special
  
  Court believes it to exist beyond reasonable doubt and not merely when its
  
  existence is established by a preponderance of probability.
  Explanation.- In this
  
  section, "culpable mental state" includes intention, motive,
  
  knowledge of a fact and the belief in, or reason to believe, a fact.