-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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Castration is not the right legal response -Anup Surendranath
-The Hindu The view that it will deter rape is misplaced and based on a narrow, sexual intercourse-definition of the crime There is a fascinating urban legend that Apple’s logo is dedicated to Alan Turing, who committed suicide by biting into a cyanide injected apple. A few years after he was instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code in World War II, Alan Turing was convicted in 1952 for homosexual acts in...
More »Govt announces judicial inquiry in rape case, penalty to be enhanced
-PTI Bowing to massive public protests over the gang rape of a young Delhi girl, the Central government on Saturday announced setting up of a judicial commission to probe the incident and to suggest measures for improving the safety of women and indicated that maximum penalty for rape could be enhanced to death. Disclosing the series of steps being taken by the government as public protests mounted in the capital, home minister...
More »477 convicts in jails awaiting hanging, govt tells Rajya Sabha
-The Times of India As many as 477 convicts awarded death sentence are awaiting hanging in various jails across the country, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Maharashtra, which last month hanged LeT terrorist Ajmal Kasab in a secret operation after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition, has 50 convicts in its jails awaiting hanging, putting it third on the list of states with maximum number of convicts awaiting...
More »Visitors to Haryana may soon face fingerprint checks-Varinder Bhatia
-The Indian Express The Haryana Police are installing fingerprint scanners at border checkposts in a bid to check crime in the state. Visitors entering through 30 checkposts on Haryana’s borders with Delhi, Chandigarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh will be randomly stopped and asked to undergo the test, which will then be checked against a database of known Criminals in the state and neighbouring districts. The scanners have already been procured...
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