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India’s cavalier attitude towards crimes against women

Lowering the age of juveniles will take into account the reality of a changed India where crimes against women are on the rise. It will not, however, stop them unless we first create an environment of zero-tolerance. Mumbai’s Juvenile Justice Board has packed off the two underage rapists of a photojournalist and a telephone operator […]

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They’re not minor offences

The juvenile justice system needs many changes to reflect social reality. This is what worries me. Three years or two years or how so ever many months from now, the juvenile who at 17 years and six months of age gang-raped, brutalised and eventually killed a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in December will walk free. We

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