Stricter punishment for gang-rape, denial of bail for crime against women and lowering juvenile age limit to 16 are among the key recommendations made by top bureaucrats and police brass to the government. The conference of Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police held in New Delhi on Friday has suggested increase in punishment for gang rape, setting up of Fast Track Courts, National data base for sexual offenders and...
05:37 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Stricter punishment for gangrape, denial of bail for crime against women and lowering juvenile age limit to 16 are among the key recommendations made by top bureaucrats and police brass to the government. The conference of Chief Secretaries and Director Generals of Police held in New Delhi on Friday has suggested increase in punishment for gang rape, setting up of Fast Track Courts, National data base for sexual offenders and...
09:45 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Union Minister Salman Khurshid also said that Justice JS Verma committee was looking at all possible dimensions of the Juvenile Justice Act when asked about possible amendments. ...
06:01 PM, Jan 06, 2013
Bipasha Roy, a member of the Juvenile Justice Board, has said it's time to revise the juvenile age limit. ...
06:49 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna had written two letters recommending changes in the Juvenile Act. ...
06:44 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Even as there have been demands for a change in the Juvenile Justice Act following the brutal gangrape and murder of a paramedical student in Delhi because on of the accused is a minor and may walk free after just a few months in a remand home, CNN-IBN has learnt that Delhi Lieutenant Governor Tejinder Khanna had written two letters to Union Home Ministry recommending changes in the Act. ...
01:30 PM, Jan 05, 2013
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11:59 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The Delhi gangrape case has sparked off a new debate with many asking if the time has come to change the laws to ensure a juvenile, convicted in a heinous crime like rape, isn't able to get away with a lighter punishment. While most child activists are of the opinion that there is no need to lower the juvenile age limit, there is also an opinion that an exception could ...
11:02 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Watch today's top stories with CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:59 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Delhi gangrape case has brought attention to the need for sexual assault laws to be revised, however, a storm is also brewing on the need to look at the Juvenile Justice Act. The youngest of the accused, who was allegedly the most brutal assaulter in this case, could get off lightly. ...
11:43 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The Delhi gangrape and murder case has brought attention to the need for sexual assault laws to be revised. A storm is also brewing on the need to look at the Juvenile Justice Act as the youngest of the accused, who claims to be a minor, was allegedly the most brutal assaulter in the case. He could get off lightly for want of stronger laws. ...
06:35 PM, Jan 03, 2013
The name of the minor, who is one of the six accused in the brutal gangrape and murder case of the 23-year-old paramedical student, has been excluded in the chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police at the Saket Court on Thursday. A separate chargesheet against him would be filed in a juvenile court. ...
06:03 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Even as Delhi Police is set to file a 1000 page chargesheet in the brutal Delhi gangrape case, there are debates as to how the juvenile accused will be treated by the lawmakers amidst calls for lowering the age for juvenile offenders. ...
03:54 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh on Thursday said that the Delhi braveheart's name should not be revealed. He was reacting to the ongoing debate over making the name of the 23-year-old paramedical student, who was gangraped in a moving bus in the national capial on December 16, 2012, public. ...
03:26 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has ordered a probe into the alleged sexual abuse of children in a juvenile home at Thiruvanchur in Kottayam district, run by the Social Welfare Department. Based on a report by CNN-IBN, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy instructed the Director of Social Welfare Department to conduct an inquiry and submit an initial report, official sources said here on Thursday. Some of the children had told CNN-IBN that...
03:43 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Kottayam: Two kids who lived in juvenile home in Kottayam, Kerala have finally spoken out against the atrocities carried out by the attackers, who were none other than caretakers and senior boys at the home. After months of abuse, two children have come forward with tales of how caretakers and senior boys sexually abused them. One of the kids said, "They beat us with large sticks. At night the wardens...
08:49 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Panaji: A 10-year-old boy was sodomised by three inmates of a government-run juvenile delinquent home at Merces, on the outskirts of the capital, a probe by a government committee revealed on Saturday. The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in its complaint to the Old Goa police station has said that the three people, whose names have not been disclosed yet, had "carnal sodomised intercourse" in the premises of the state-run facility,...
12:50 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Monday ordered the police to transfer the case of young Christian girl Rimsha Masih, accused of blasphemy, to a juvenile court as an official medical board had concluded that her age is 14 years. District and Sessions Judge Jawad Abbas Hassan directed police to submit a separate challan or chargesheet against Rimsha to the juvenile court. He said the court had received the medical board's...
03:39 AM, Sep 25, 2012
Kolkata: A nine-year-old boy was allegedly tortured and branded on his face by a hot iron by his employer at Behrampore in Murshidabad. The boy was employed as a domestic help by a businessman. He was allegedly tortured by the man and his family members who used to beat him up. On Saturday the boy was mercilessly beaten up after he came late from a grocery store and then branded...
01:47 PM, Jul 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A 15-year-old has been arrested in Alleppey for allegedly killing his classmate. The incident took place in the premises of the St George High School on Monday. The boy is said to have confessed that he killed his classmate to avenge a petty clash that happened two months ago. The body of Lejin Varghese (14), a student of St George High School in Muttar, was found with his throat...
09:17 AM, May 09, 2012
