Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Government wants to make laws against sexual offences more stringent and a draft for a new law is being prepared that will include mental harassment as part of sexual abuse.
So it is not just the people's campaign alone which is fighting for justice for Ruchika. The Government too has now stepped in with the Sexual Offences Special Courts Bill, which is almost finalised and waiting for the Cabinet's nod.
"I am working on making these laws more stringent," says Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily.
The government proposal is: sexual abuse is defined to include not just physical but also mental harassment with punishment for both to be similar. Punishment for sexual abuse will be made stringent. Till now maximum punishment for sexual abuse is two years. In cases where sexual abuse leads to suicide the onus to prove that suicide was not due to sexual harassment lies with the accused. All cases of sexual harassment to be dealt with special courts and cleared within six months to a year
"We will push for the sexual assault bill in the next session (of Parliament)," says Union Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath.
Chandigarh Sessions Court may have enhanced the punishment for SPS Rathore from six months to one and a half year in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, but the Government still wants wants to send out a message through a new law that it wants to get very tough on cases of sexual abuse.
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