Comments on: On Minor offences and offences against Minors

By: Lekhni

Lekhni — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:13:07 +0000

I completely agree with you. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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By: Lekhni

Lekhni — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:53:05 +0000

The words show how archaic IPC is. And if you read that SC decision on attempt to rape, you'd be even more amused by this sentence: Addressing the issue of a child being the victim of an offence of outraging of modesty, the judges, quoting another judgment relating to a case involving a seven-month-old baby, said a girl possesses from birth the modesty that is the attribute of her sex.

By: Pamposh Dhar

Pamposh Dhar — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:07:06 +0000

Very thooughtful post. I would like to add just a couple of thoughts of my own:
1. The law should be designed not just to punish but also to deter. The perpatrator of an attempted rape remains just as much of a threat to society as one who has raped successfully. If this potential rapist is not deterred, he will “attempt” rape again and perhaps this time he will succeed.
2. It is shameful that Indian society tolerates so much abuse of girls and women, both in private and in public. The fact that so many Indians refer to molestation on the streets and buses of our cities as “eve-teasing” is a sign of this tolerance of abuse. No doubt we need good laws, properly enforced, to protect our citizens. But do we not also need to stop tolerating molestation, marital rape, domestic violence, extreme “ragging” etc?

By: Prasoon

Prasoon — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:47:16 +0000

The words IPC uses to describe or even cover such crimes are actually surprising. Rape or Attempt – describing it as just “Insult to modesty” – how can all that be just covered by such broad words I ask.
The difference in punishment for one who attempts suicide n the one who attempts to rape – I think that says it all about the IPC. One shouldve been provided care after the suicide attempt but instead the system condems it and punishes harshly and the other case, the person as we see can blackmail n torture and keep his crime under cover and even when punished, can get away quite easily. Bad, really bad.