Does research exist to show death penalty deters rape? HC to Centre
The Delhi high court asked the central government on Monday if it had done any research or scientific assessment before coming out with an ordinance to award death penalty for rape of girls below the age of 12.
The high court was dealing with an old PIL that challenged the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act of 2013, in which a penal provision -- minimum of seven years of jail term -- for a rape convict was included and the court’s discretion to award less than that was taken away.
“Did you carry out any study, any scientific assessment that death penalty is a deterrent to rape? Have you thought of the consequences to the victim? How many offenders would allow
A woman alleged two men tried to pull down her skirt on a road in Indore as she drove her scooter on Sunday, saying on Twitter it was her right to wear whatever she wished.
“These scars will fade but not the ones on my soul,” she said about a picture she posted of the injuries she
their victims to survive now that rape and murder have the same punishment,” a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar asked the government.
The Union Cabinet, two days ago, cleared the Criminal Law suffered after she fell off her scooter trying to fend off the men on early Monday.
She said two men on a motorcycle molested her and shouted “dikhao skirt ke niche kya hai”. A man who offered help allegedly faulted her for wearing a skirt. “I have never been so offended,” she said. HTC
(Amendment) Ordinance 2018, which proposes stringent punishments, ranging from a minimum of 20 years to life term or death, for rape of girls under the age of 12 years.
If the victim is less than 16 years and more than 12 years, the ordinance has increased the minimum punishment from 10 years to 20 years and the maximum has been set at imprisonment for the rest of the convict’s life.
The Centre’s decision came in the wake of a nationwide outrage over cases of sexual assault and murder of minors in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and Surat in Gujarat, and the rape of a girl in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.
The high court on Monday said the government was “not even looking at the root cause” or “educating people” as the offenders are often found to be below the age of 18 years and in majority of the cases, the perpetrator is someone from the family or known to them.
It further questioned whether any victims were asked what they want before coming out with the ordinance.
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