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| India court convicts teenagers over Mumbai gang-rapes |
| 2014-07-16 |
| [TRIBUNE.PK] A Mumbai court convicted two teenage boys Tuesday over separate gang-rapes that shocked the city in a verdict that came days after an Indian minister said juvenile suspects should be treated as adults in rape cases. Two 17-year-olds were found guilty — one over the gang-rape of a photographer and another over the gang-rape of a telephone operator in the same abandoned mill compound in the city last year, public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told AFP. He said the pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be sent to a reform institution in Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, for three years. "They should keep good behaviour and vocational guidance will be given to them," Nikam added. Three men were in April ordered to hang for their involvement in both the gang-rape cases, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year. Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development in Narendra Modi's new right-wing government, said on Sunday that juveniles accused of rape should be treated on a par with adults. "For premeditated murder, rape, if we bring them into the purview of the adult world, then it will scare them," she told news hounds in the southern city of Chennai. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 There's also a cultural element, as obliquely referenced by JFM. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-16 11:20 |
| #2 Probably. Ultrasonography has led to a high number of selective abortions when unborn is a girl. Note thgat in India traditionally female babies have ever suffered an unommon number of deaths through "accidents". |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-07-16 05:50 |
| #1 What is the ratio between young males and available young women in India. Is there a large disparity? I am wondering if there is a real and large shortage of available marriageable young women? Say forty young men to one young woman.... social reasons could be at work. No marriages and legitimate ways a young man could get a wife or even have an opportunity to be around young women. Big gaps between needs and opportunities? A large class of young men simply not in the equation for a married life? Moslems have such strange and basically obtuse problems with only a portion of the male population having an advantage with the female availability. Hindu may have their own weird social stupidities as well. It must be a lot of fun to be poor and condemned to no access to young women on a general basis. And a large number of you who will never marry. What is the demographic for male/female proportions in the population? Gang rape? Numbers game. |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-07-16 04:42 |