Justice Verma panel calls for life-term for rape
Criticizing law enforcers and calling for police reforms, the Justice Verma Committee tasked by the government to suggest stringent laws against sexual violence submitted its recommendations this week to the Home Ministry.
The commission acknowledged the contributions of the nation's youth in bringing the crime on the national agenda for change and booed the insensitivity of authorities in tackling the issue.
The panel also recognized voyeurism, disrobing, touching, stalking, eve-teasing as offences that are punishable, drawing applause from the women's groups and citizens many of whom hailed it as a modern document in keeping with the times and a sort of Magna Carta of laws against sexual violence.
Additionally, it also recognized the discrimination against the lesbians, homosexuals and transgender people calling such acts as unconstitutional as well.
The Verma Commission said the punishment for causing death or a permanent vegetative state of the victim shall be rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than 20 years but may be for life in real sense.
It said gang-rape shall be punishable of not less than 20 years and can also go up to life sentence.
The panel called for a 7 years term for voyeurism while also dwelt on sexual assaults and rapes in the conflict zones by men in uniform (read army).
The three-member committee headed by former Chief Justice of India J S Verma submitted its report to the government a month after it was formed following a national outrage over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student on a Delhi bus on Dec 16 and her subsequent death from the injuries.
Justice Leila Seth, former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court, and former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramanian, are the other two members of the committee.
Justice Verma minced no words when he said "I was shocked" to see the Home Secretary pat the back of the Delhi police commissioner for investigation in the Delhi gang-rape case when he should have ideally asked for apology for failing to protect citizens.
Delhi rape victim scores a first class in last exam
Sai Institute in Dehradun, where Nirbhaya was studying towards becoming a physiotherapist, revealed on Wednesday that she secured a first division with 73% in the last exam of her life.
Her teachers remembered her as a hard-working student, focused on a career in physiotherapy. Sai Institute also announced they would hand over a cheque of Rs 1,80,000 to Nirbhaya's family in keeping with a decision the management took to return the girl's entire 4-year course fee.
Nirbhaya, who was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16 and died of injuries sustained in the brutal attack on December 29, had a total of 800 out of 1100 marks in six papers in tests conducted last year byHNB Garhwal University (a central varsity).
Criticizing law enforcers and calling for police reforms, the Justice Verma Committee tasked by the government to suggest stringent laws against sexual violence submitted its recommendations this week to the Home Ministry. The commission acknowledged the contributions of the nation's youth in...
Criticizing law enforcers and calling for police reforms, the Justice Verma Committee tasked by the government to suggest stringent laws against sexual violence submitted its recommendations this week to the Home Ministry.
The commission acknowledged the contributions of the nation's youth in bringing the crime on the national agenda for change and booed the insensitivity of authorities in tackling the issue.
The panel also recognized voyeurism, disrobing, touching, stalking, eve-teasing as offences that are punishable, drawing applause from the women's groups and citizens many of whom hailed it as a modern document in keeping with the times and a sort of Magna Carta of laws against sexual violence.
Additionally, it also recognized the discrimination against the lesbians, homosexuals and transgender people calling such acts as unconstitutional as well.
The Verma Commission said the punishment for causing death or a permanent vegetative state of the victim shall be rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than 20 years but may be for life in real sense.
It said gang-rape shall be punishable of not less than 20 years and can also go up to life sentence.
The panel called for a 7 years term for voyeurism while also dwelt on sexual assaults and rapes in the conflict zones by men in uniform (read army).
The three-member committee headed by former Chief Justice of India J S Verma submitted its report to the government a month after it was formed following a national outrage over the brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old medical student on a Delhi bus on Dec 16 and her subsequent death from the injuries.
Justice Leila Seth, former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court, and former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramanian, are the other two members of the committee.
Justice Verma minced no words when he said "I was shocked" to see the Home Secretary pat the back of the Delhi police commissioner for investigation in the Delhi gang-rape case when he should have ideally asked for apology for failing to protect citizens.
Delhi rape victim scores a first class in last exam
Sai Institute in Dehradun, where Nirbhaya was studying towards becoming a physiotherapist, revealed on Wednesday that she secured a first division with 73% in the last exam of her life.
Her teachers remembered her as a hard-working student, focused on a career in physiotherapy. Sai Institute also announced they would hand over a cheque of Rs 1,80,000 to Nirbhaya's family in keeping with a decision the management took to return the girl's entire 4-year course fee.
Nirbhaya, who was gang-raped in Delhi on December 16 and died of injuries sustained in the brutal attack on December 29, had a total of 800 out of 1100 marks in six papers in tests conducted last year byHNB Garhwal University (a central varsity).
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