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J&K Cabinet passes Ordinance approving death penalty for child rapists

Jammu, April 24: The Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet today passed an ordinance approving death penalty for child rapists and enhancing the jail term for those convicted of raping girls aged 13 and above.

The J&K Protection of Children from Sexual Violence 2018 ordinance passed by the state Cabinet is similar to the one passed by the Union Cabinet on Saturday.

The main feature of the ordinance passed by J&K Cabinet is capital punishment for those convicted of raping a child below 12 years of age.

Worthy to mention here that state needs to pass this separate law other than Central Govt laws as those aren’t directly applicable to J&K due to its special status under Article 370.

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VP Venkaiah Naidu says the decision to reject the impeachment motion not ‘hasty’

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Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said his decision to reject the impeachment notice against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra was “timely and not a hasty one” and came after over a month of due diligence.

At a meeting with Supreme Court lawyers on Tuesday, Naidu said, “Some Honorable Members of the House had a point of view and the right to express it while I had a responsibility cast on me. I have done my job and am satisfied with it”.

Even as the Opposition has threatened to challenged Naidu’s order in the Supreme Court, officials pointed out that it was not the first such instance. “Chief Justice of India is the highest judicial functionary of the country and any issue in public domain concerning him requires to be resolved at the earliest following prescribed procedures so as to prevent the atmosphere from being further vitiated. Issues raised in the notice mostly pertained to the functioning of the Supreme Court and they have to be resolved internally. Any other means of seeking to address them amounts to interference in the independence of judiciary,” an undaunted Naidu stated.

Mr. Naidu told the lawyers that Rajya Sabha Chairman’s office is not merely a post office, its constitutional authority and the decision to dismiss the impeachment motion by the Opposition was timely and not taken in haste.

He maintained that the notice lacked substantial merit and that the allegations were neither “tenable nor admissible”.

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