Making India Safer for Children: Petition leads to Ordinance
As you may have read in the news already, some of the asks via the LocalCircles petition have been accepted by the Govt of India and within 2 days the ordinance has been approved by the Cabinet and the President.
Below are the reports on the subject:
http://bit.ly/childrape-punishment-citizenpulse
http://bit.ly/childrape-punishment-citizenpulse-toi
A lot more is still to be done to reduce child rapes in India esp on reform the investigation and trial processes and but this is indeed a good first step.
Do share your inputs on what else can be done so justice is delivered swiftly in POCSO cases. more