Srinagar: The Union cabinet will take up for consideration on Saturday draft ordinances, prescribing the death penalty for those convicted of raping children below 12 years, Hindustan Times reported quoting sources.
According to HT the move seeking the death penalty for child rapists comes in the backdrop the brutal rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, the alleged rape of a minor in Unnao by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, and rising anger over a spate of such incidents being reported over the past few weeks.
“On Friday, for instance, at least three such instances were reported, one from Etah, Uttar Pradesh (the second such in the same place in the same week), the second from Chhattisgarh, and a third from Odisha,” HT report said.
