Centre for Inquiry into Health & Allied Themes v/s. Union of India
- Soma Singh, Sharda University
- December 4, 2020
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Rape is an invasion of a woman’s body in which her private and private inner space is violated. it\'s the most morally and physically reprehensible crime in a society, as it is an assault on the body, mind, and privacy of the victim. Change in lifestyle, living standards, the disparity in economic growth thanks to urbanization and changes in social ethos and lack of concern for moral values contribute to a violent tendencies towards women, which has increased crime against women. Further, the protest in the Delhi after the barbarous Rape Incident indicated the whole of India, the enormity as well as the seriousness for immediate reform in Rape Laws. Within the backdrop of this incident, the Central Government set up Justice Verma Committee headed by former CJI of India, J.S. Verma to form a recommendation on the inefficiency of Rape Laws and other laws for protection of women in IPC because of great hue and cry by the Indians. Not only this, the President of India promulgated.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013,whichamended several laws related to Protection of Woman, as an instantaneous measure to ebb the anger of India.
The Cabinet headed by P. Chidambaram together with his colleagues debated the criminal law Ordinance, 2013. On 19 March 2013, it was passed by Lok Sabha
