-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After doggedly turning down arguments for having a graded response to crimes by juveniles, depending on the gravity of their crime and the juvenile's age, the government is finally coming around to the view the juveniles above 16 years involved in heinous crimes, like murder or gang Rape, should be tried as adults under the Indian Penal Code. The change in the outlook of the women...

-The Hindustan Times For the past three years, Kunwar Pal is looking for his missing 12-year-old son. He tries to follow every lead that he gets and travels across the city and nearby towns in the search of his son who went missing in November 2003 from Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. He regularly visits the police station, where he had registered a missing persons' complaint and pastes photos of his son...

-The Business Standard Realising Raina's vision would help society tide over various flaws in the education system Educationist Vinod Raina wasn't just an activist, but a link in the chain of thought on what ideal schooling should be. With Raina passing away last week, that chain is now broken. Various events last week raised questions on the link between education and society. After a child was found dead after being bullied in school,...

-The Hindu Not only is the death penalty barbaric and immoral and its deterrent effect unproven, it also contradicts the core objectives of the criminal justice system Advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in the immediate aftermath of the sentencing in the Delhi Rape case may appear morally dubious. What rights do people guilty of so heinous a crime lay claim to, and what do they deserve but death, you...

-The Hindu In many cases, witnesses turned hostile, or police statements didn't match victim statements The judge who convicted four men for the gang Rape and murder of a Delhi girl had handed down only two other Rape convictions in the last five years, court data shows. However, this record seems to raise more questions about the investigation process than the legal process. Supreme Court advocate K. V. Dhananjay with a team of...