Lower juvenile age limit to 16 years: Haryana minister

Last Updated: Saturday, January 05, 2013, 17:58

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Tags: Haryana, Juvenile, Gang-rape, Ajay Singh Yadav, Sexual Assault, Crime, Women

Chandigarh: Joining in the debate to lower juvenile age limit, Haryana Minister Ajay Singh Yadav on Saturday said upper age limit for juvenile offenders should be reduced from 18 to 16 years to effectively deal with growing cases of sexual assaults against women.

Speaking to reporters at a function here, the state Forest minister said in cases of heinous crimes such as the recent case of gang-rape in Delhi, the accused should be hanged and in other such cases there should be at least life imprisonment.

The minister also agreed with the view that those involved in cases of sexual assault should be socially boycotted.

In reply to a question to whether the Haryana government has any proposal to merge Departments of Forests and Environment, Yadav, who holds the charge of both Departments, denied any such proposal of the state government.

He said 466 forests guards would be recruited as these posts had been lying vacant.

The state has a total of 1642 sanctioned posts of forest guards, he added.

PTI

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First Published: Saturday, January 05, 2013, 17:58

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Ajay - Delhi
Dont worry my dear Cong leaders,only a year left fr ur actrocities on us.We shall teach u a nice lesson in the forthcoming loksabha elections.V did a terrible mistake by electing u.Don worry,it was our last mistake.

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Ajay - Delhi
can anybody tell me if the age is 16 for mutual consent sex n after that the girl says ,she has been raped then on which ground the boy wud be saved.Y the politicials are playing a dirty game of votes by diviidng us on this basis.Their law is 100% against males.Wht is the fault of males??hand the culprits but dont downgrade males without reason.In every movement males are with females 7 in every incident, males have been helping females then y v r getting this reward frm our govt.

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Ajay - Delhi
In my opinion,marriage age for women shud be 21 instead of 18 so they can be well educated by that timew n can take any decision positively.

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Ajay - Delhi
Where is the law if the law syas that if a female fales a false rape case,she will not get any punishment??Wht is the fault of males then??Y shud they go behind the bars without commiting any crime.Dont u think,this will create further tension between males n females n anybody who is not getting justice wud definately take up law in his hands to get the revenge.Who is responsible if this happens??IThese politicialns must be held responsible for all these crimes.These people hv no solution of any problem so creating confusion all around.

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Ajay - Delhi
Do u think,lowering the age will solve anything,???rather it wud attract people to commit more crimes against females.We have neen divided on the basis of color,caste ,religion, rich n poor now they are planning to divide us on the basis of males n females.They want to demolish the entire social network n culture of our country.