Amid uproar over the Pune bus rape case, former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Thursday recalled the 2012 Nirbhaya incident and asserted crimes towards girls can’t be prevented solely by forming legal guidelines however by their correct implementation. Chandrachud, chatting with reporters on the sidelines of a programme in Mumbai, was replying to a question on the rape of a lady inside a Maharashtra State Highway Transport Company bus in Pune’s Swargate space. A 26-year-old girl was raped allegedly by history-sheeter Dattatray Ramdas Gade (37) early morning on Tuesday inside an ST bus. 13 groups have been shaped by police to trace down Gade.
Correct implementation of legal guidelines made for ladies is required to stop incidents of sexual harassment, the previous CJI stated, including lots of adjustments have been made in legal guidelines following the Nirbhaya incident in Delhi. In 2012, a 23-year-old physiotherapy scholar who later got here to be known as ‘Nirbhaya’ (a fearless one) was brutally gang-raped on a bus in Delhi. She later succumbed to her wounds. The case made nationwide and worldwide headlines.
“We can’t forestall such incidents by solely having legal guidelines. Apart from legal guidelines, enormous accountability lies on the shoulders of society and correct implementation of the legal guidelines made for ladies. Numerous girls go to work and many others. Therefore, the legal guidelines made for them ought to be correctly carried out in order that they really feel secure,” Chandrachud stated.
He additionally emphasised the necessity for “correct investigation, sturdy motion, fast trial and punishment” and asserted the “authorized system and the police have an enormous accountability”. “At each degree, we must always take into consideration this fastidiously so that ladies can do their jobs safely. That’s the basic of an equitable society,” the previous CJI stated.
