Privacy is a basic human right, and even criminals have those. To undermine this capacity because vicious, punitive justice sells on primetime TV debates is to tear through the foundation that this country.
Instead of provisions for death penalty, it is restorative justice that needs to be built into the existing laws and implemented through a sensitised justice delivery system.
The lawyer of the 8-yr-old Bakerwal girl who was gang raped and murdered questions the ordinance on child rape, and the efficacy of death penalty as a deterrent.
High acquittal rates, high drop-out rates due to delayed court procedures, and an absurdly lenient sentence in child rape cases is a travesty of justice.
With no victim support and protection systems in place, the field is open for the accused to threaten, intimidate, and pressurize the victim to retract.
The central theme emerging from Chinese online discourse is that while Trump may now acknowledge China’s strength and treat it as an equal, this recognition is driven more by fear and strategic anxiety than by genuine intent for collaboration.
Once seen as a fading presence on India’s investment & startup picture, the state is slowly moving up the ladder, with policy reforms & infrastructure building.
Agreement signed during 17th Joint Working Group (JWG) on defence cooperation. Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh met Director General in Israeli Ministry of Defence Amir Baram Tuesday.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
We all value the sanctity of human life, respect the ethical opposition of many to the death penalty. However, by any standard of rarest of the rare, this case, in all its dimension, including women’s safety, clearly calls for capital punishment.
We all value the sanctity of human life, respect the ethical opposition of many to the death penalty. However, by any standard of rarest of the rare, this case, in all its dimension, including women’s safety, clearly calls for capital punishment.