President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday signed an executive order bringing into force an ordinance that proposes the death penalty for rapists of children under the age of 12. The law comes on the heels of immense outrage over the Kathua rape case and a number of others which had children as victims. On this episode of We The People, we ask: will the death penalty act as a deterrent to possible perpetrators or will it make the reporting of the heinous crime even more difficult? With the conviction rates in the country for rape at an abysmal low, will this law end up being a mere eyewash and will it further burden the legal system as many experts fear?
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A 30-year-old married woman working as an Area Manager with a multinational pharmaceutical company here has lodged a sexual harassment complaint against two senior colleagues, following which an investigation has been initiated, police said on Sunday.
A 13-year-old girl was repeatedly allegedly raped by her father for six months, following which he was arrested from Rajasthan's Jhalawar district on Monday night, police said today.
The mother of a 16-year-old girl with special needs who was allegedly raped by a 60-year-old man in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district has said that she was turned away by the police when she went to file a complaint.
A 43-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping his niece in north Delhi's Kotwali, police said on Saturday. The incident first took place first on March 26, when the girl was alone at home as her aunt had gone to Bhagalpur in Bihar, they said.
The CBI today arrested two sub-inspectors of the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with the reported death of the father of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger at Unnao, in judicial custody.
Three men allegedly drugged a 12-year-old girl and took turns to rape her, before abandoning her in a Delhi-bound train, police said on Monday. An FIR has been lodged against the accused, two of whom have been identified by the police.