Women groups against death penalty for rapists: MoS Home
December 24, 2012  19:34
The government has been rattled by spontaneous protests against the gang-rape rape of a 23-years-old physiotherapist in New Delhi.

India has risen to express solidarity in her tragedy. The government is trying hard to put up a brave face after failing in providing safety to it's citizens.

Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh, minister for state for home affairs, a young face of the government,  is trying hard to articulate what young protesters want to hear.

In a conversation with rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt he presents the UPA government's defence. Almost all women organisations in the country are against capital punishment for rapists, he said.

Read his interview on rediff.com in a short while from now.
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