New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said his party is open to discussing the possibility of death penalty for rapists.
"This is a very serious matter. We are willing to discuss and consider this because what happened in this Delhi rape case is gruesome," he said, to a query if CPI-M agreed with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj's demand for death penalty for rapists.
Yechury contended that there is something "seriously wrong" in the society and that there is no fear and respect for the law.
"This sort of sickness in the society, where there is absolutely no fear of the law, forget respect of the law," he said, adding: "First of all we have to generate that fear of the law, and only then respect for law comes." ...
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11:57 PM, Feb 29, 2012
The National Commission for Women chairperson Mamta Sharma created a controversy after she said that words like sexy should not be taken in a negative context. ...
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08:12 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Jaipur: NCW Chairperson Mamta Sharma on Saturday sparked a controversy by saying that the word "sexy" should not be taken in a negative connotation, drawing criticism from BJP and women's organisations which termed her remark as "shocking" and "demoralising" for women. Speaking at a function, Mamta said sexy meant beautiful and charming so it should not be taken in a negative sense because problems start when we treat it as...
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New Delhi: Bishan Singh Bedi has created a flutter in the cricket corridors by saying that India left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha has a suspect action, The Telegraph reported last weekend. Bedi was present at the Cricket Association of Bengal's (CAB) Annual Awards ceremony, where he made this observation about Ojha: I'm not a great fan of Ojha...that's because of his suspect action. That's how bluntly I can put it. But...
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