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Juvenile Justice Bill was rushed through in Rajya Sabha: CPIMCPI(M) today rued that Parliament missed an opportunity to consider the "important" bill in a more "dispassionate and scientific" manner.
AAP drafts new Bill for women's rights in line with Justice Verma Panel recommendationsDDC released a new bill titled 'Charter of Women’s Rights' modelled on the 'Bill of Rights’ and other recommendations of the Justice Verma ...
Collegium illegal, NJAC will work better: GovernmentThe court should not examine the validity of a law before it is notified, he said. Rohatgi assured the court that the NJAC would work bette...
Justice JS Verma, head of anti-rape law panel, diesJustice Jagdish Sharan Verma, who headed the anti-rape law panel, passed away on Monday. Justice JS Verma died due to multiple organ failur...
- ‘Rape’ replaces ‘sexual assault’ in Criminal Law Ordinance, 2013
The home ministry has moved a Cabinet note, which has reintroduced the term ‘rape’ in place of ‘sexual assault’ in the Criminal Law (Amendm...
Govt retrieves 6-year-old report ahead of talks on police reformsThe group of ministers (GoM) had examined the ARC's report on improving public order only once so far, in August 2012.
No recommendations made by the Verma committee has been rejected, clarifies P ChidambaramChidambaram said the 'correct position' was that certain recommendations of the Verma committee had not found their way into the ordinance.
Women unsafe because of poor governance, not dearth of laws: Justice JS Verma"The CJI's statement shows how pained he must have been after the gang-rape incident. There are many ways to contribute to a protest", Verm...
Justice JS Verma committee rejects chemical castration, lowering of juvenile ageDeath is a known form of penalty but mutilation has not been recognised in progressive jurisprudence as prescribed punitive action, the com...
Justice JS Verma submits report on rape laws, 'shocked' by system's apathyJustice Verma said the failure of governance was the root cause of crime against women. He also said it was "equally shocking" that there w...
- Delhi gang rape: Verma Panel to hear views of ministries
The Justice JS Verma committee has decided to meet top bureaucrats and eminent civil society members before finalising its report on a stro...
Government plans to make stalking of women a criminal offenceStalking was excluded from the ambit of the bill after the ministry gave a view that stalking as a crime was difficult to prove in a court ...
- Framing rape laws: Some bizarre ideas
The panel, which will submit its report this month, has received suggestions ranging from the bizarre to the macabre to ones that will be d...
Anti-Rape Laws: Sushil Kumar Shinde asks for political parties' viewsSushil Kumar Shinde has written to all political parties, including Congress, on Monday asking them to give their suggestions on framing st...
- Delhi gang rape: Justice Verma committee begins work; seeks public comments
The committee headed by former CJI J S Verma is reviewing the existing rape laws in a bid to provide quicker justice and stringent punishme...
- Lokpal bill: UPA's friends & foes raise voice against Article 253
Article 253 became the deal-breaker on Lokpal Bill, bringing the friends and foes of UPA together, chanting that govt was infringing on the...
- ‘Balakrishnan should quit as NHRC Chief’
With the income-tax department alleging former chief justice of India KG Balakrishnan’s kin possess “black money”, ex-CJI JS Verma demanded...