Chinmayi Sripada also talked about how single parents are blamed for anything and everything that happens to their children. She that the newspaper made it seem like because the mother “spoilt” the girl, the predator came close to her and raped her.
Bhargav was arrested on April 21 in Hyderabad and his case was later transferred to Disha Police in Vishakhapatnam, a specialised police station for dealing with crimes against women and children.
The Union Law Minister had submitted a written reply in Lok Sabha in March last year, in which he stated that West Bengal had 20,511 cases under the POSCO act pending in courts.
The gangrape charge was filed against seven men after the girl’s parents found out that their daughter was two months pregnant.
The recent POCSO rulings by Bombay HC have come under fire with regard to safety of children from sexual crimes. Here’s what lawyers are saying.
Skin to skin contact ruling by Justice Ganediwala has sparked a wide spread debate on social media, regarding the understanding of sexual violence among the Indian judiciary.
Does it leave make children more vulnerable to sexual crimes, where accused can use no skin-to-skin contact as an escape route, and return to the folds of society, carrying on with their heinous crimes?
The draft bill will be tabled during the two-day winter legislative session that begins on December 14.
The accused had confessed to the crime before the police, also admitting that he had consumed liquor before committing it.
Haryana has now become the third state in India to make provisions for awarding child rapists the death penalty. The provision has yet again given rise to questions on how effective capital punishment is in curbing crimes. A study, ‘Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence In the Death Penalty’, compared the amount of violence in American […]
