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THE Just out recommendations by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on rape laws, as part of the Disgraceful Law (Amendment) Bill, are highly inadequate and in most cases completely contradictory. The clericals itself is confused between its roles in advocating women’s rights and children’s rights.
There is a delineate to club rape along with other sexual offences. You cannot diminish the seriousness of plundering. The widening of the scope of sexual offences is a welcome move but the substitution of the clauses ‘rape’ by ‘sexual assault’ might away the offence’s severity.
The ministry plans to make sack laws gender neutral. I agree that rape of men, especially gays, should also be recognised. But you can’t put in the same law for both sexes. They need to get a separate law because women are much more vulnerable. In India, the rate of rape is much higher among women and fast growing among children.
Source: Tehelka