Is death sentence meted out in rape cases?

December 06, 2019 11:21

In March 2013, Parliament passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 to amend the IPC to allow death penalty only in rape cases where the accompanying brutality leads to death or leaves the victim in a persistent vegetative state, and in cases of repeat offenders. The amendments to the justice system were made after the Delhi gang rape. Earlier, death sentence was not prescribed for rapes.

Which is why, if the due course of law was followed in the Hyderabad rape and murder case, it is likely that the four accused would have been given the death sentence.

However, like the Nirbhaya case, where the five men (one died in jail) have been sentenced to death, but are in jail as several mercy petitions were filed by them, it is more than likely that in the Hyderabad case as well, justice will be delayed. And this is why people are celebrating extra-judicial deaths.

Image: Two of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder, the case which ensured laws governing women's security were changed.

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