We execute the poor. The rich get off.
It is not the severity of the punishment that will deter crime; rather the surety of punishment that helps.
There are apprehensions that the CM is cut off from ground realities, and also that the ‘big fish’ will go scot-free.
The state has no accurate record of the real number of drug overdose deaths.
India Today cover story explores what impulses fuel the epidemic of sexual violence.
The ordinance was promulgated after the central government faced heat and social outrage over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua.
Union Cabinet clears ordinance in the wake of outrage over rape and death of 8-year-old in Kathua.
It fails to tackle the bigger problem: a culture that sees fit to gang-rape and murder a child to remove a community from 'their' lands.
What is important is the certainty of punishment.
Dhananjoy shows how the police, the judiciary and the State can err in sending a poor security guard to the gallows.
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