NEW DELHI: In the wake of the gruesome gang rape of a 23-year-old girl here, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde is writing letters to all political parties seeking their suggestions on the issue of changing the law pertaining to rape.
Sources said Shinde will ask the political parties to send their suggestions on the matter to the Justice J S Verma Committee, which has been constituted for reviewing the present statute so as to provide for speedier justice and enhanced punishment in cases of aggravated sexual assault.
The move comes in the midst of the main opposition's demand for convening an all-party meeting to discuss the issue.
The Verma Committee has sought suggestions from individuals, NGOs, women's groups and others by the first week of January. The panel, set up by the government on December 23, has been given 30 days to submit its report.
The committee will look into possible amendments to the criminal law to provide quicker trial and enhanced punishment for criminals accused of committing sexual assault of extreme nature against women.
The other members of the committee are Justice (retd) Leila Seth, former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court, and former Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramanian.
Under the existing law, the maximum punishment for rape is life term but the nationwide outrage over the December 16 gang rape of the physiotherapy student in a moving bus here has sparked a demand for death penalty to rapists. The girl breathed her last on Saturday in a Singapore hospital.
BJP has also favoured death for perpetrators of such heinous crimes and demanded a special session of Parliament for amending the law.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj raised the demand while attacking the UPA government for the "secrecy" in the cremation of the December 16 gang-rape victim, who was raped in a moving bus.
"The culprits be hanged and the government should not accept any mercy petitions in such cases. If this can be done then this will be the only respect to that victim," she said while referring to five cases of rape-cum-murders in which the UPA government, she said, had granted pardon to convicts.
Swaraj, who was addressing a condolence meeting organised by Delhi BJP here to pay tribute to the 23-year-old victim, also demanded that such cases should be moved only to fast track courts and within six months they should be decided.
"The trial of rape cases should be completed within six months and capital punishment be given in cases of rape and murder," she demanded.
She said BJP will utilise the Budget Session of Parliament for making stringent laws against offenders of such crimes.
Swaraj said she had spoken to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded that a special session of Parliament be called to examine the existing laws regarding rape as there is no scope of giving death penalty in such cases.
"We feel that if a murder takes place after kidnap and rape, then death penalty should be the only punishment. But my demand of special session was rejected by Home Minister. Then we demanded an all-party meeting to discuss the security of women but that was also rejected," she said.
Swaraj said as they have not called the special session of Parliament, "we will utilise the budget session of Parliament."
"It is an urgent need that there is an examination of all the laws regarding women this year (2013). There should be severe punishment for violence against women," the BJP leader said.
Accusing the government of being interested in performing "drama" over the rape case, Swaraj disapproved the "covert way" in which the government conducted the girl's cremation.
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