President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday gave his assent to the ordinance on sexual harassment that was approved by the Cabinet on Friday. The President signed it and it will now be tabled before Parliament for approval. The Parliament has to clear it before six months for the ordinance to become a law. The government has assured that more changes will be made to the ordinance once it is referred to...
05:07 PM, Feb 03, 2013
The CPI-M on Saturday attacked the government for doing "injustice" to the Justice Verma Committee recommendations against sexual violence and said the ordinance on the matter went against all democratic norms. Disapproving the ordinance "on both procedural as well as substantive grounds", the party said "when Parliament is scheduled to meet in three weeks, it is against democratic norms to issue such an ordinance." ...
03:41 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Former IPS officer and activist Kiran Bedi on Saturday welcomed the ordinance to amend the criminal law with focus on crime against women but said the government has cherry picked recommendations of Justice Verma Committee. "Justice Verma's recommendations took a 360-degree view of the issue. The ordinance has cherry picked recommendations. Very well, it's a beginning made but it's still a long way to go," Bedi said. ...
03:22 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday justified the government's decision to issue an ordinance on sexual violence against women, saying views of the Justice Verma panel and the public in general were that something needed to be done with a "sense of urgency." ...
02:21 AM, Feb 03, 2013
Has the ordinance on sexual harassment, meant to counter criticism about women's safety, backfired even before it was promulgated? Women's groups allege that the government has diluted the law against sexual crime by not accepting Justice JS Verma's recommendations in totality. Now, political parties have joined the chorus. ...
09:51 PM, Feb 02, 2013
