-The Hindu Law Commission asked to make draft Moving a step ahead towards framing a distinct law for online “hate speech,” the Home Ministry has written to the Law Commission to prepare a draft law. The provisions will deal with offensive messages sent through social media and online messaging applications. The decision came after a committee headed by former Lok Sabha Secretary General T.K. Viswanathan submitted a report recommending stricter laws to curb...
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Kidnap and child rape top crime graph against children in India
-PTI The maximum cases were reported from West Bengal (15.1 per cent) during 2016. A total of 55,944 children were traced at the end of the year 2016 in the country. crime against children in India has increased by a sharp 11 per cent between 2015 and 2016 , according to the latest data released by the National crime Record Bureau (NCRB). Going by absolute numbers, it’s an increase of 12,786 reported...
More »'Manifold rise in suicide due to unemployment in Madhya Pradesh' -Desh Deep
-The Times of India BHOPAL: There has been an almost 2000% rise in the cases of suicide due to unemployment in Madhya Pradesh between 2005 and 2015. In 2005, the number of people committing suicide with unemployment as a reason was 29 which went up to 579 in 2015, said Akshay Hunka convener of Berozgar Sena quoting the figures of the National crime Record Bureau(NCRB). The Sena was constituted recently to highlight...
More »NCRB to collate data on online child sexual abuse -Vijaita Singh
-The Hindu New Delhi: In a first, the National crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has started collating data on online child sexual abuse in the country. Till now no repository of such crimes was available at the national level. The move comes after a parliamentary standing committee on home affairs pulled up officials for not reporting the cases. The panel, headed by senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, said in its report that they...
More »Court takes first step towards taking suicide off list of crimes -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In its path-breaking verdict linking right to life with right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court on Friday took the first step towards giving judicial support to the much canvassed proposition that it was inhuman to punish a distressed person who failed to end his life through suicide. Section 309 of IPC provides that "whoever attempts to commit suicide and does any act towards the...
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