Juvenile Justice Bill

[Sushubh]

Free undertrials as Tihar jail is overcrowded, govt. tells HC

Tihar Jail has 14000 inmates while it has a capacity of 6500 prisoners. I totally believe that they can separate the 16-18 year old criminals from the more experienced ones in smaller jails around the country.

 

[Sushubh]

Also I wonder if the guy who was released this week had been tried as an adult and gotten a longer punishment... Would the media and parents of the dead girl spared him if he was released 10 years from now? He would still be the same guy who committed that crime. Though I guess they would have been somewhat satisfied if he was sent to jail for life which I assume is 25 years minimum in practicality?

 

[Sushubh]

The revised statutes of 2013 Indian law, in section 376A, mandates minimum punishment in certain cases. For instance, if the sexual assault inflicts an injury which causes death or causes the victim to be in a persistent vegetative state, then the convicted rapist must be sentenced with rigorous imprisonment of at least twenty years and up to the remainder of the natural life or with a death penalty."[93][94] In the case of "gang rape", the same mandatory sentencing is now required by law.[94] The convicted is also required to pay compensation to the victim which shall be reasonable to meet the medical expenses and rehabilitation of the victim, and per Section 357 B in the Code of Criminal Procedure. Death penalty for the most extreme rape cases is specified.[94]

Rape in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This looks like it.

Anyways. I do not see how this kid would have come out a reformed citizen 25 years from now. But then anything can happen!

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Life imprisonment means jail term for entire life: SC
this should not left any confusion in your mind

 

[Sushubh]

I think a better punishment for heinous crime is solitary confinement. The guy should be left on his own in a padded insulated cell for a few years. No contact with another human being is probably the worst way of living your life.

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Anyways. I do not see how this kid would have come out a reformed citizen 25 years from now. But then anything can happen!

letting him free won't guarantee too

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

I think a better punishment for heinous crime is solitary confinement. The guy should be left on his own in a padded insulated cell for a few years. No contact with another human being is probably the worst way of living your life.

I agree with you to this point. He deserves something like Kala-Pani

 

[Sushubh]

which is what the point here is. prisons are too overcrowded for rehabilitation. and from what i have been reading the juvenile rehabilitation system in india is very underfunded but the people responsible for the program have been opposing this bill. good luck to the justice system of this country if they can suddenly create extra rooms to handle the millennials!

anyways. what's done is done. one of the MPs was quoted as saying that this would solve the crime problem in the 16-18 year age bracket lol. that was hilarious.


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of course, this new bill does not change anything in the nirbhaya's case so that's another lame point in his statement.

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

A solid action today will create fear in the hearts of future criminals.

 

[Sushubh]

that's another funny point that has been widely raised before.

they banned tinted glass when this happened. but rapes in moving vehicles have not really stopped. what instead has happened however is that ACs have become less efficient in summers. harsher punishments do not stop criminals from committing crimes. the crime in this case was very likely not preplanned. it was likely done in a state of intoxication. you do not really consider logic when you are drunk/drugged. this law does little to nothing to prevent future crimes. people do not think that chalo, is crime ki punishment to kam hai, to kar lete hai.