-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Nearly a year after the role of a juvenile in the gang-rape of Nirbhaya triggered a storm of outrage while the crime itself led to widespread street protests, the government has proposed that youngsters above 16 years of age guilty of heinous crimes be treated on par with adult offenders. The decision to amend the existing law so that provisions of the Indian Penal Code relating...
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Verma panel did a rethink on Vishakha guidelines -Manoj Mitta
-The Times of India The outrage over the Delhi gang rape spurred the enactment of two laws relating to gender reforms. The one widening the definition of rape and enhancing penalties for a range of sexual crimes was largely based on the recommendations of the Justice J S Verma Committee, which had been appointed post Nirbhaya. But when it came to the other law, which deals with sexual harassment at the...
More »Issues of sexual assault: the Tehelka case-Brinda Karat
-The Hindu "Tehelka" tried to conceal the gravity of its Editor-in-Chief's alleged sexual assault, which is rape under the amended IPC. It tried to divert attention to an inquiry by an in-house committee mandated by a 2013 law meant to protect women in workplaces. This Act deals with sexual harassment of a lesser degree, the offences under it are non-cognisable, and it is in limbo since the government has failed to...
More »Law graduate sticks to charges, puts faith in 3-judge panel -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: A young lawyer, who had alleged that she was sexually harassed by a "retired Supreme Court judge", has stood by her earlier statements and interviews and repeated the charges against her alleged tormentor in her deposition before a three-judge fact-finding committee set up by Chief Justice P Sathasivam. In her blog post on 'Journal of Indian Law and Society' on Thursday, she said, "On November 12,...
More »Why Tehelka's response is wrong at so many levels-Siddharth Varadarajan
-NDTV Sexual harassment and sexual assault are crimes no matter when or where they occur and those responsible must be held accountable under the law. When these crimes happen at the workplace and involve a senior person abusing his authority to put a female worker under pressure, the company concerned also has an institutional legal responsibility to investigate and take action. When that workplace happens to be a magazine, newspaper or...
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