NEW LAW COMING ON SEX OFFENCES

NEW LAW COMING ON SEX OFFENCES

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July 21, 2022

In order to prevent sex offences in the future, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily is now ready with a draft Bill to set up special courts to hear cases of sexual offences. The Sexual Offences (Special Courts) Bill will go to the Cabinet shortly, and will be tabled in the next session of Parliament, the Minister told the media persons on December 30.   Moily said he had discussed the Ruchika case with the CBI and the Solicitor General of India. “There is no legal problem in re-opening the case. Charges can also be reframed. We want to include charges of abetment to suicide against Rathore,” Moily said. “A strong message must go out across the country that nobody, however high or mighty, could take liberties with the rule of law.” He said, the fact that Ruchika had been expelled from her school and her brother had been falsely implicated in theft cases, “showed that there was abetment to suicide”. “The Law Ministry in consultation with the Home Ministry wants to treat this as a model case so that in future no officer or authority can think of perpetrating or supporting such a thing. We are also in touch with the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) as it concerns the ethics of governance,” Moily added.