-Bhaskar News Bharatpur/ New Delhi: Self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu is in the center of a major controversy after he held the Delhi victim responsible for the barbaric sexual assault on her by a group of sex men. "Only 5-6 people are not the culprits. The victim daughter is as guilty as her rapists... She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop... This could have saved her dignity...
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Few takers for death penalty, many States want 16 as juvenile age bar -Sandeep Joshi
-The Hindu Many State governments favour bringing down the age bar for juvenile offenders from 18 years to 16 to deal with growing cases of sexual assault. A meeting of State Directors-General of Police and Chief Secretaries held on Friday here, however, could not come to a consensus on awarding the death penalty to rape convicts. In the rape case of the 23-year-old physiotherapy student, one of the six people allegedly involved...
More »SC slams wife beating, says not accepted social norm -Utkarsh Anand
-The Indian Express While a sessions court in Karnataka thought that “one or two beatings is not the kind of cruelty that could drive a woman to commit suicide”, the Supreme Court on Thursday deprecated all kinds of “insensitivity” shown by people as well as judges towards crimes against women. Appealing for no-tolerance towards any sort of physical violence on women, the apex court said that “mindset” of people, including that of...
More »MP to blacklist sexual offenders from govt jobs
-The Times of India BHOPAL/JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh government is compiling a list of convicted sexual offenders to ensure that they do not get government jobs as part of a series of measures to check crimes against women in the state. A government spokesperson said a DSP rank officer will be appointed in each district to check such crimes and that charge-sheets in these cases will be filed within two weeks. There has...
More »SC endorses chorus for deterrent punishment for crime against women -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India The Supreme Court on Friday endorsed the clamour for deterrent punishment to offenders in cases of crime against women saying no leniency be shown while sentencing the guilty in such cases. The strong pitch for tougher punishment for those guilty of crime against women came as part of a judgment, where a bench of Justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi upheld life imprisonment for two sisters along with...
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