Juvenile sentence ‘meagre’, tweets Sushma, wants death

Sep 01, 2013 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

Terming the three-year sentence awarded to the juvenile in the December 16 gangrape case by the by Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) as “meagre”, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said she will move a Private Member’s Bill for making punishment commensurate with offence whatever be the age of the offender.
“Damini case verdict-the most cruel of them all has been let off with just three years sentence in the name of a juvenile. This meagre punishment of just three years does not do justice to Damini,” Ms Swaraj said on her Twitter handle.
The senior BJP leader maintained that the sentence must be commensurate with the gravity of the offence, irrespective of the age of the offender.
“I am moving a private member’s bill in this regard. At present, the law does not provide for this. We should amend the Juvenile Justice Act to provide that the sentence must be commensurate with the nature and gravity of the offence,” she said.
Ms Swaraj said her Private Member’s Bill was listed for introduction last Friday (August 23) and should come up on September 6.
Last week, during a discussion in Parliament on the gangrape of a photojournalist in Mumbai, she had said that hanging some culprits of the December 16 case will send a message and act as a deterrant.

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