The police decide whether a young person in custody will be treated as a child or an adult. Placing discretion with them is based on the erroneous presumption that age is clear.
Co-author Enakshi Ganguly and other panellists appeared to have lost all control over their audience, which seemed adamant about escalating the situation to a shouting match.
Niranaram Chetanram Chaudhary was released last month after an SC order affirmed that he was a juvenile in September 1994, when he was arrested for the murders of seven people in Pune.
The accused was sentenced to death for the 2017 rape and murder of a four-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh. SC has upheld his conviction, but set aside his death sentence.
The decision came from the parliamentary panel in response to the government asserting that existing laws are adequate to deal with juveniles committing heinous crimes.
The world watched aghast as police armed with tasers, tear-gas masks—and in one case backed up by snipers—arrested hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at universities across the United States.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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