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MARGAO
Congress MLA Reginaldo Lourenco on Tuesday demanded setting up of fast track courts across the country for the speedy disposal of rape cases committed against infants, young girls and women.
He also hoped that the country’s two most powerful leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will also display their real intent with tearing speed in pursuing all the cases against all rape accused and getting these sexual offenders awarded with the Capital Punishment after following the due process of law.
In a statement, Reginaldo said the fast track court trial should be completed within six months and called for an amendment to law to make hanging in public so as to deter people committing such heinous acts of rape or equivalent in the future.
“In our Goa too, the Vasco minor school girl who was raped in her school toilet in 2013 is still awaiting justice due to the best reasons known to late CM Parrikar and the administration of BJP,” he said.
He said last Friday’s death of Unnao rape victim who was set on fire on the way of hearing should make the civilised society hang its head in shame. He hoped the accused MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and the other five people involved in setting the victim on fire are given Capital Punishment after following the due process of law.
“For the past seven years, there have been numerous instances of rape cases reported from pan India. The Nirbhaya gangrape of 2012 in Delhi was the most horrific one and it shook the collective conscience of the entire world. It is sad to see even after seven years, the perpetrators of the dastardly act have still not been sent to gallows despite the Supreme Court in July 2018 upholding death penalty for the three rapists,” he said.
Similarly, he said the 27th November 2019 gangrape and murder of 26-year-old vet in the outskirts of Hyderabad is equally condemnable. “Though I fear public backlash leading to more such police encounters which is not a good sign for a vibrant democracy like ours, which has independent judiciary as one of its important pillar. Without following the due process of law, the 6th December 2019, 3:00 am killing of the 4 unarmed suspects by 10 armed cops of Hyderabad Police at the rape site lacks credibility,” he said, while demanding to know whether all other rape cases would be treated in the same manner and the status of existing cases would also follow the same path as above.
