-PTI NEW DELHI: A whopping 1,121 rape cases were registered in the city in the first eight months of this year, the highest in the last 13 years. Police see this rise in the number of cases as a good sign, saying that more cases are now being reported which was not the case earlier and a number of efforts have been taken to ensure women safety in the city after the...
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Balancing the juvenile act-Aparna Viswanathan
-The Hindu Young offenders above a certain age who commit violent crimes should be prosecuted as adults On August 31, 2013, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) ordered that the boy who raped Nirbhaya, brutalised her with an iron rod, pulled out her intestines and then cleaned up the bus and made tea would go virtually free by sentencing him to only 28 months in a remand home as eight months of the...
More »Child rights on Dispur agenda-Sumir Karmakar
-The Telegraph Guwahati: Assam has become the second state in the country after Goa to notify setting up of special courts to fast-track cases relating to child rights and sexual offences. Assam social welfare department deputy secretary Kavyashree Mahanta told The Telegraph today that the state legal affairs department had already issued a notification for setting up the special courts in all district and sessions judge courts. "These courts will exclusively...
More »Where have all the women gone? -Vani S Kulkarni, Manoj K Pandey and Raghav Gaiha
-The Hindu Overcoming son preference in India remains a daunting challenge as even educated women are prone to it Have women fared better than men, and girls better than boys in the last decade or so? In the din over a dramatic reduction in poverty in the period 2009/10-2011/12 that is unlikely to die down, deep questions about the discrimination and deprivation that women face from the womb to the rest of...
More »Crime Against Woman Cops on Rise in Delhi
-Outlook New Delhi: Cases of women police personnel subjected to molestation and attacks in the national capital have been on the rise with 14 such incidents reported this year till July 31, equal to the combined number of such cases in the past three years, the Lok Sabha was informed today. Till July 31, as many as 14 such cases have been reported in which 16 people have been arrested, Minister of...
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