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  12 years of Nirbhaya: How safe are women in India today, list of regulations to protect them

  Explainers | December 16, 2024 12:53 IST

  The 2012 Delhi gang rape case led to the Criminal Law (Amendment) act 2013, usually known as the Nirbhaya Act, which introduced major reforms including stricter punishments for sexual crimes, death penalty for cases of extreme brutality.

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  Rule of law supreme: PM Narendra Modi on rape cases

  India | August 15, 2018 10:06 IST

  PM spoke about fast-track trial of rape cases in MP and Rajasthan where the convicts were condemned to death within days and said such cases need to be given wide publicity to deter people from committing such crimes.

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  SC order criminalising sex with minor wife a game-changer, key lies in implementation of laws

  India | October 13, 2017 13:50 IST

  The judgment brings the focus on this crucial shortcoming in our society that has been accentuated both by societal mindsets as well as State apathy.

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  SC rules sex with minor wife is rape: Five ways the apex court verdict will alter status quo

  India | October 11, 2017 15:49 IST

  The Supreme Court order not only removes the inconsistency in the age of consent, it could also have a significant bearing on cases under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.

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  Rape laws on minor girls; SC makes NCW party to PIL

  India | September 19, 2015 10:48 IST

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court today made the National Commission for Women (NCW) a party to a PIL challenging constitutional validity of a provision in rape laws that permits intrusive sexual intercourse with a girl

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  No spl session of Parliament for tightening rape laws: Govt

  India | January 04, 2013 19:04 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 4: The government today ruled out convening a special session of Parliament to discuss stricter punishment for sexual offences saying the issue would be taken up after receipt of the Justice Verma

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  Shinde asks all parties to suggest changes to rape laws

  Politics | January 02, 2013 11:38 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 2: The government has asked political parties to give their views on reviewing rape laws to Justice J S Verma Committee, set up to suggest amendments in the statute to provide speedier

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  Rape laws will be made more stringent: Shinde

  Politics | December 29, 2012 13:32 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 29: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Saturday mourned the death of the young gang-rape victim in Singapore and promised to enact "more stringent laws" to prevent such crime."Her death will not go in

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  Sex With Wife Below 18 Yrs May Get 7 Yrs In Jail

  India | November 23, 2010 10:28 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 23:  A high-level committee constituted by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram last year to look into the issue of amendments to rape laws is all set to recommend that intercourse with a