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.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
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.
one or another pretext….. women are made to suffer ,male has lot to offer to escape police ACTION but females can not abandon their kith and kin ……every one in that family is to suffer at every step …MENTALLY,SOCIALLY,PHYSICALLY , FINANCIALLY ALSO ULTIMATELY? LAW MOVES AT SNAIL’S PACE. MORE OR LESS TAKES 10 YEARS…DELIVERY OF JUSTICE IS DELAYED LIKE A TRAUMA MADE TO SUFFER
Law should know that dignity of man is as important as women. False accuser should get same punishment. Rape cases filled by girlfriends and live in partners should be a separate category. Such firivoulus cases simply dilutes the gravity of genuine rape cases actually an obstacle in speedy delivery of justice to real victims
one or another pretext….. women are made to suffer ,male has lot to offer to escape police ACTION but females can not abandon their kith and kin ……every one in that family is to suffer at every step …MENTALLY,SOCIALLY,PHYSICALLY , FINANCIALLY ALSO ULTIMATELY? LAW MOVES AT SNAIL’S PACE. MORE OR LESS TAKES 10 YEARS…DELIVERY OF JUSTICE IS DELAYED LIKE A TRAUMA MADE TO SUFFER
Law should know that dignity of man is as important as women. False accuser should get same punishment. Rape cases filled by girlfriends and live in partners should be a separate category. Such firivoulus cases simply dilutes the gravity of genuine rape cases actually an obstacle in speedy delivery of justice to real victims