-The Hindustan Times Rapes by juveniles have increased fivefold in a decade since 2000, when its definition was modified to include children of 16 to 18 years under the category. The year 2011 recorded 1,149 Rapes by juveniles — most of them between 16-18 years. In 2000, the number was just 198. As per the modified Juvenile Justice Act, the maximum punishment for a crime committed by a juvenile is three years — as...
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Puducherry prescription: separate buses, overcoats for girls-Kavita Kishore
-The Hindu Separate buses for schoolboys and schoolgirls, overcoats for girls, ban on mobile phones on campuses and restricted interaction of girls and boys — these are the steps the Puducherry government has decided on to enforce to prevent harassment of girl students. The measures came after a meeting between Education Minister T. Thiagarajan and principals in the wake of the Rape of a 17-year-old student by two men on Tuesday. By reducing...
More »25 years' court data proves RSS chief wrong; 75% of Rape convicts from 'Bharat' -Rukmini Shrinivasan
-The Times of India Women's groups have criticised RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's view on Rape in "India" and "Bharat" for being regressive. But data shows that not only are Bhagwat's views regressive, they're also plain wrong. While the National Crime Records Bureau does not split registered cases of sexual assault by rural and urban areas, Mrinal Satish, an associate professor of law at Delhi's National Law University, used court data to find...
More »Government to amend law to nail juvenile rapists: minister -Moushumi Das Gupta
-The Hindustan Times In the wake of the barbaric gang Rape on a Delhi bus in which one of the attackers is thought to have been a juvenile, India will amend its laws to treat such criminals as adults for the purposes of punishment in some cases. Women and child development minister Krishna Tirath told HT on Friday that the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act will be amended to treat those over...
More »Delhi gang-Rape victim's friend: Cops wasted 30 minutes arguing about jurisdiction
-The Times of India While Nirbhaya's brutal gang-Rape horrified the nation, the events that followed the crime revealed shocking callousness on the part of both citizens and the police. In his first public statement, Nirbhaya's friend said on Friday that the two of them lay naked on the road for more than two hours with people stopping to look at them and then moving on. "My friend was grievously injured and bleeding...
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