Rape is not a ‘minor’ crime

When a juvenile is accused of committing a crime of adult nature, the very act rather than the age of the offender should determine the degree of willfulness of the criminal. Punishment must follow on those lines The December 16 incident of rape and brutal torture of a young woman in a moving bus in Delhi that ignited the conscience of a nation and provoked a visible indignation of a country at the escalating violence against women, has unquestionably found space in the prudent work of Justice Verma Committee.

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