-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...
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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...
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...
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...
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