Expressing concern over the ever-increasing incidents of Child rapes, Uttarakhand High court has asked the state government to frame a law within three months for awarding death penalty to those who rape girls below 15-year-old.
The division bench of justices Rajiv Sharma and Alok Singh made the suggestion to the state government while hearing the appeal of a man, Karandeep Sharma, who was convicted of the rape and murder of an 8-year-old and was awarded the death penalty. The court dismissed his plea and upheld the death sentence awarded to him by the lower court.
Sharma had raped and killed a girl for which OSCO court had announced its decision in April 2018.
Citing National Crime Records Bureau’s data, the High court pointed the alarming rate at which crimes are conducted against children.
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“According to the report of National Crime Records Bureau under the caption ‘Crime Against Children (States & UTs)’, 489 cases were registered in the year 2014, 635 cases were registered in the year 2015, and 676 cases were registered in the year 2016 (in the state),” the judges remarked, adding that “the ratio of cases registered under Sections 4 and 6 of POCSO Act/ Section 376 IPC is disproportionately large vis-a-vis the population of Uttarakhand.”
It was only a month ago that Madhya Pradesh Government had passed a law awarding Death penalty to those who rape girls below 12 years old.
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