Live Breaking News & Updates on Shakti Criminal Law Bill

Sankar Sen
Ex-Director, National Police Academy
THE Maharashtra cabinet recently approved the draft of the Shakti Criminal Law Bill which provides for death penalty for serious offences such as rape and child abuse. The Andhra Pradesh government is also reportedly enacting a law containing a similar provision of death penalty for rape. This brings to the fore the question whether death penalty will act as a deterrent against growing incidence of rape in the country. Will the fear of death scare and deter the rapists?
There is no doubt a surge in rape cases across the country. Delhi has earned the dubious sobriquet of being the ‘rape capital’. According to the Annual Crime Report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 32,033 rape cases were registered in India in 2019, as against 33,356 in 2018 and 32,599 in 2017. This slight drop in cases in 2019 was perhaps due to the fact that data from West Bengal was not available. Ironically, the perpetrators of these he ....

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