Dhuleshwar Mina said that a sentence of three to four years in insufficient since it is not a preventative or reformative solution. Shridhar Vasudeo Dhabe said that changes need to be made to personal law as well so that the husband or his relative be disqualified from inheriting the wife’s property in cases of dowry […]
2011 court case of the state of Delhi against Dinesh Yadav, who raped his stepdaughter over a period of four years, while threatening the girl and her mother to kill them. The judge imposed a prison term of 10 years and recommended the creation of a new law, which allows surgical or chemical castration as […]
Read the Recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee Click the link above for the full report, or the ones below for individual chapters: Chapter 3 – Rape and Sexual Assault Chapter 9 – Sentencing and Punishment Chapter 11 – Medico-legal Examination of the Victim Chapter 12 – Police Reforms […]
Bangladesh: “Violence against Women: About Shifting the Burden of Proof and Ensuring Perpetrators’ Punishment” http://www.thedailystar.net