This Act seeks to protect minors (below 18) from sexual exploitation, assault, abuse, prostitution, pornography, stripping, etc. It hereby includes penovaginal intercourse, but also other body party and external objects. Further also penalties and sentences are clearly defined, which are also applicable to the security forces and the police. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9wqvs5QNCItaVd2eXRpSWM0Y1k/edit?usp=sharing
Ved Kumari touches upon the issue that in the gang-rape in Delhi 2012 a minor was involved. She makes clear that vengeance has no space in a liberal civil society. Quite on the contrary, prevention and better child care are the solution here. However, she asks for a better and mandatory inclusion of classes on […]
The Indian Law Commission released in 2000 a report on a review of the Rape Laws. This was initiated by the petitioner ‘Sakshi’, an organization interested in women’s issues. The paper focuses on the need to review the rape laws in the light of increased incidents of custodial rape and crime of sexual abuse against […]
Two children have been abducted in Delhi. While only the girl was raped, both the boy and the girl have been killed. It is assumed that the police did not act accurately and that the killing of the children could have been avoided, if the police officers would have acted immediately and faster. State_vs_Jasbir_Singh_@_Billa_And_Kuljeet_…_on_16_November,_1979