Chargesheeting rate in rape cases is high. Conviction rate has, however, gone down post-Nirbhaya incident. If stricter laws were a solution, we should have had a better situation.
The HRW report only goes to show how structures of “due process” often don’t work, especially for women at the intersections of multiple marginalisations.
Maharashtra was one of the first states to roll out a landmark scheme for helping rape survivors and victims of child abuse following the outrage over the gang-rape of a photojournalist in a Mumbai mill in 2013.
The Human Rights Watch in their report released in November 2017 examines the implementation the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences, Act, 2012. I share here the findings of an eight week long court-room ethnography conducted in a fast track court (FTC) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in April and May of 2015.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
You claim that everyone has become an expert on 1984. Unfortunately you mention 2002 in the same way without knowing enough. Practice what you preach. Oh forgot, the print does not believe in that !!
1. Author of this article has underscored brutal facts about 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 2. I think there was suppression of facts by the first Commission of Enquiry, headed by Justice Ranganath Misra. 3. It is a matter of national shame that information about anti-Sikh riots of 1984 has been buried in dirty politics of the Congress party. 4. Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar has been awarded life imprisonment but is this justice? Is there a guarantee that Sajjan Kumar will not get a stay of the High Court order of life imprisonment? 5. We as citizens wish to know from apolitical legal experts what needs to be done urgently to ensure that no criminal case, particularly against a politician, drags on (for say) five years or more. 6. Incidentally, I wish to say that the way our politicians work, our Courts work, our judicial system works, and way we citizens react ( or rather do not react) to delays in judicial processes, I think are all matters of disgrace. Do we deserve to call ourselves a democracy?
You claim that everyone has become an expert on 1984. Unfortunately you mention 2002 in the same way without knowing enough. Practice what you preach. Oh forgot, the print does not believe in that !!
1. Author of this article has underscored brutal facts about 1984 anti-Sikh riots. 2. I think there was suppression of facts by the first Commission of Enquiry, headed by Justice Ranganath Misra. 3. It is a matter of national shame that information about anti-Sikh riots of 1984 has been buried in dirty politics of the Congress party. 4. Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar has been awarded life imprisonment but is this justice? Is there a guarantee that Sajjan Kumar will not get a stay of the High Court order of life imprisonment? 5. We as citizens wish to know from apolitical legal experts what needs to be done urgently to ensure that no criminal case, particularly against a politician, drags on (for say) five years or more. 6. Incidentally, I wish to say that the way our politicians work, our Courts work, our judicial system works, and way we citizens react ( or rather do not react) to delays in judicial processes, I think are all matters of disgrace. Do we deserve to call ourselves a democracy?
Good article