Children should be protected from sexual offences and the Cabinet has approved amendments to various sections of the POCSO Act, said union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Our laws are perfection itself. It is in their implementation that things begin to unravel. The aminos Dalit girl who was violated by MLA Sengar had the mortification of seeing her father beaten to death. Now an FIR has been lodged against her. As per the letter of the Atrocities Act – in which the reasonable safeguards mandated by the apex court have been nullified by an Ordinance – her first complaint to the police ought to have led to Sengar’s arrest and denial of bail.
… minor Dalit girl …
Our laws are perfection itself. It is in their implementation that things begin to unravel. The aminos Dalit girl who was violated by MLA Sengar had the mortification of seeing her father beaten to death. Now an FIR has been lodged against her. As per the letter of the Atrocities Act – in which the reasonable safeguards mandated by the apex court have been nullified by an Ordinance – her first complaint to the police ought to have led to Sengar’s arrest and denial of bail.