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FASTER PROBES CAN DETER MORE THAN STRICT LAWS
The Morning Standard
|January 31, 2025
THE conviction rate for rape cases in India was at a dismal 2.56 percent in 2022.
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The number is integral to the public discourse on crimes against women, yet is often forgotten amid a clamour for the harshest of punishments. The pattern of this discourse has become so familiar that several state governments have chosen to amend laws dealing with serious crimes against women and children to extend the terms of punishment and introduce the death penalty for certain categories of crimes. Tamil Nadu recently joined West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra in passing bills to that effect.
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