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Can the hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts stop the heinous acts of rape?

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Can the hanging of Nirbhaya case convicts stop the heinous acts of rape?

"The power of the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.”- Ursula K. Le Guin - The horrific case of Nirbhaya gang rape occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi. The incident took place when a 23-year-old female physiotherapy intern was beaten, was fatally assaulted, gang raped, and tortured in a private bus in which she was travelling with her friend. It shook entire humanity.The four convicts of 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape cum murder were finally hanged in Tihar Jail on the Friday morning, March 20 after a delay of eight years. The decision was carried out by the three judge Supreme Court bench rejecting the plea by the convicts lawyer AP Singh to stay their execution. The bodies of all the convicts were handed over to the respec...

Covid 19: stupidity and religion

There is news and sense and then there is nuisance. While the whole of world is engaged in tackling this deadly virus Covid 19, not only in India but around the world, the human stupidity with regard to Covid 19 has resulted in many deaths. Almost fifty people were inflected at a church in South Korea after a church official spread salt water into the mouth of worshipers, for they believed it will kill the virus. Some people despite being warned make a fun of all the announcements. Amidst this global stupidity how could the Indian covidiot Hindu mahasabhas lag behind. This stupidity encouraged a person in Bengal to set up a stall and sell cow urine five hundred rupees a liter and five hundred for one kilogram of cow dung. He sold these things as a cure for coronavirus. This man ...

Fading Hope in Indian Judiciary

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”- Mahatma Gandhi - The symbol of Court of Justice is a pair of scales held evenly by an impartial and blind but sagacious woman. A Court is a tribunal often as a government institution with the authority to adjudicate of justice in civil, criminal and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. Access to justice has always remained an inseparable part of justice delivery system. This follows the doctrine of ubi jus ibi remedium.Thus any impediment on accessing the courtroom is an impediment to the fundamental and human right of access to justice.Most of the case in fact what judges are doing is, deciding cases based on their perso...