A division bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Sunita Gupta expressed displeasure at the Centre and Delhi governments for not creating effective mass awareness about offences related to sexual abuse of women and children.
The bench said that despite mass protests after the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape and making amendments in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, to make punishments for sex-related offences more stringent, "no deterrence can be seen to bring down the ratio of such sexual crimes being perpetuated on women and children".
"There is thus an urgent and imperative need to sensitise people through various mass awareness campaigns and social programmes to make them aware about the stringent laws and severity of the punishments provided for committing such ghastly crimes.
