With more people calling for harsher punishment and speedier justice in rape cases, Tamil Nadu has become the first State to unveil an action plan for curbing sexual offences against women.
In a 13-point plan, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday Jan 01,2013 mooted severe punishments like death penalty and chemical castration for sexual offenders through amendments in Central Acts.
Like Childline, an integrated women’s helpline would be in place with the help of service-minded individuals, activists working for welfare of women and involving trained professionals capable of handling women in distress.
Efforts would be taken to install CCTV cameras in all public buildings
to easily identify those involved in crime against women.
The Goondas Act, a preventive detention law, would be amended to include sexual offenders under the Act’s purview.
Sexual offences against women would be considered grave crimes
henceforth; investigation would be supervised by deputy superintendents
of police. Women inspectors, or in their absence, women sub-inspectors
would assist the enquiry. Superintendents of police and Deputy
Inspectors General would conduct a monthly review of such cases.
TN Govt would set up Fast Track Mahila Courts in each district to deal with sexual crimes against women, appoint women investigating officers and prosecutors to make the police probe and trial more gender-sensitive. Efforts would be made to expedite the trial by holding daily hearings.
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