-The Telegraph New Delhi: A year after the Supreme Court pulled up 19 states, including Bengal, that did not have a commission to protect children's rights and directed them to set up one, most of these panels exist only on paper. All states/Union territories are required to have a child rights commission under Section 17 of the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005. Twenty-three states now have the panels -...
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Bengal's crime incidents call for Prez's attention -Joydeep Thakur
-The Hindustan Times Kolkata: President Pranab Mukherjee will meet shortly two groups of people who will give him the lowdown on the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal, the state he represented for more than 40 years in Parliament. The All India Democratic Women's Association, the women's wing of the opposition CPI(M), is planning to approach him on the rising incidents of crime and violence against women and the alleged...
More »Murders, accidents dipped in Delhi in 2013, police commissioner BS Bassi says -Raj Shekhar
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Here's a good note on which to start the New Year. Fewer people were killed in Delhi in 2013. The number of murders, a prime indicator of the crime situation in a city, dropped. So did the number of accidents, Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi announced in a press conference on Friday. A total of 487 people were murdered in the city last year, compared...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: Public buses in 32 cities will have GPS facilities and video recorders under a proposal approved by the cabinet today as part of the Nirbhaya Fund for women's safety. The clearance of the road transport ministry's proposal comes over a year after the December 16, 2012, gang Rape of a paramedic student in a Delhi bus and death weeks later. The Justice J.S Verma Committee, formed after the atrocity...
More »In 97% Rape cases, accused known to victim, police data reveals -Prawesh Lama
-The Indian Express New Delhi: In 97 per cent of the Rape cases reported this year, the crime was committed by a person known to the victim, police data reveals. In 40 per cent cases, the crime was committed by a family member or neighbour, data shows. This year, 1,559 cases of Rape were reported against 680 in 2012. According to police data, in 33 cases the father was named as accused and,...
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