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CRIMES
ELECTION 2018

RK Sinha of the BJP said capital punishment is yet in the custody after the protests turned violent and
to be given to the guilty of the 2012 gang rape and later the CBI, which was handling the case claimed to
murder of a young woman in Delhi due to appeals in solve it with the arrest of the main accused.
the case. However, in the recent development in the case,
Even the mothers of the accused are demanding the forensic science laboratory report indicated the
capital punishment. Shyamala, mother of an accused involvement of more people in the crime. The family
Chenna Keshavulu said, “Let him be hanged or set on of the victim has appealed to the state Chief Minister
fire like what they did to the doctor after raping her.” Jairam Thakur to reinvestigate the case and pun-
Mother of another accused Arif said, “He should ish the real culprits as they are roaming freely. This
be given strictest punishment which he deserves for incident shows the way our system handles so many
such a heinous crime.” sensitive matters.
The shocking incident has revived the memories After this, CM Jairam has ordered the Chief Secre-
of Nirbhaya case of 2012
when a young girl was
abducted and brutally
raped in a running bus
in New Delhi. She was
thrown out from the bus
in a serious condition and
later died in hospital.
It has been seven years
since the Nirbhaya case
and nothing concrete has
been done so far. The case
is still in court and during
this time thousands of
girls and women of this
country have been raped
or killed after the crime.
Talking about the sta-
tistics, after the Nirbhaya
case, about 1.5 lakh cases
of rape and murder after
rape have been reported
across the country. Ac-
cording to the data, every
hour, 22 cases of rape are
reported in India.
The demand for capital punishment within six tary and the DGP to study what the government can
months in the case of rape in the country is gaining do in the case now. He said that investigation in the
momentum. It is being realized that it is not enough case is in progress and the matter is in court. CM said
to just make laws as these incidents can only be con- that now the role of government is not very much.
trolled by strict punishment. Statistics show that the Nevertheless, the matter will be studied and then we
percentage of verdicts in cases of murder after rape will see what the government can do.
and rape in the country is extremely low. One such case is from Kathua in Jammu where the
There are also many people in the country who girl was murdered after the rape. The case was ech-
believe that these cases can only be reduced by social oed across the country. But it seems there is no end
change. Congress MP Amee Yajnik says - “I request all to these barbaric crimes. It seems there are no strict
the systems — judiciary, executive, legislative and oth- laws as the incidents of rape and murder are continu-
ers to come together to see that a social reformation ing unabated.
takes place. This should be on an emergency basis.” In another incident, a gang rape occurred with a
Three years ago, there was an incident in Himachal law student in Ranchi. The accused kidnapped the
Pradesh’s capital Shimla in which a minor school girl girl and raped her. On November 21 in Sambhal, Uttar
was brutally murdered after the rape in the kotkhai Pradesh, a minor girl was raped and after the rape, the
area. The police nabbed one accused, who was killed accused burnt the girl alive. She later succumbed at

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