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.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
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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.
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.