Robin Vadakkumchery, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping & impregnating a minor girl, has moved Kerala HC, seeking to marry the survivor & take care of the child.
From the victim naming her father as accused to recanting her own statement, the rape case against Kerala priest Robin Vadakkumchery unfolded in a confounding manner.
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.
Way back in the eighties, I remember a news story on Doordarshan. A police constable had raped a blind girl. So the court ordered him to marry her. Even as a child I felt that this was compounding a rape with a bigger crime. And the victim was being forced into a lifetime of rape. Such acts need to be made completely illegal and the courts should not be willing accomplices in this.
Way back in the eighties, I remember a news story on Doordarshan. A police constable had raped a blind girl. So the court ordered him to marry her. Even as a child I felt that this was compounding a rape with a bigger crime. And the victim was being forced into a lifetime of rape. Such acts need to be made completely illegal and the courts should not be willing accomplices in this.