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Though A New Bill Targets
SILENT VICTIMS All Crimes Against Mhada lottery winners
Children, Experts Say A
Law Dedicated Specifically may not home in soon
need legal voice To Child Sexual Abuse Is
The Need Of The Hour
Yogesh Naik | TNN
Mumbai: For those who win
the Mhada lottery to be held
next week, it might be a long
wait until they are able to
wali this year.
Similarly in Lokhandwala
,
Complex, where Mhada has
constructed 1,088 flats, the wa-
ter supply is expected to com-
mence fully next year. The
MLA Krishna Hegde, who
is also a member of the hous-
ing agency, said, “Mhada
colonies should be given pref-
erence in water supply as they
are low-cost housing projects
April 28: A minor escapes af- child laws need to be looked at, Ram between two people and using ing court proceedings in a move into their new homes. agency had given away 688 initiated by the government
ter she is kidnapped and mo- but that is a long-term thing. sexually explicit language. child-friendly manner and also About 1,200 flats in Turb- flats in a lottery last year. Al- for the common man. At a
lested on the terrace of the rail- The immediate need is for a However Bajpai believes offer security Lawyer Flavia
. he Mandale, Mankhurd, time, when private builders
way police quarters in Kurla law against CSA.’’ that the bill should Agnes agreed. “How do you which will be allotted in the get water connection for their
March 8: A nine-year-old girl be more nuanced put a child in a witness box? lottery to be held on May 18,
POSSESSION IN NOV, housing colonies, why should-
is raped and murdered and her LEGAL and have What is the criteria of cross- may not get BMC’s water sup- WATER A YEAR LATER n’t Mhada flats?’’ Although
body is dumped on the terrace LOOPHOLES harsher pun- examination?’’ she asked. ply till December next year. one year’s maintenance has
of the police quarters in the Bajpai point- ishments. The Addressing a press con- though most of the allottees been taken in advance from
same suburb ed out that sex definition of MAKE KIDS AWARE ference on Monday the Mum-
, have taken possession, barely the allottees, it is not eco-
February 5: The body of a five- of fenders por nog raphy While a law could help se- bai Housing and Area Devel- 10% have moved into the hous- nomical to supply tanker wa-
year-old girl is found in a gun- often get needs to be also cure more convictions, it’s de- opment Board chief officer es as the BMC is yet to grant ter, a Mhada official said.
ny bag dumped on the staircase away included, she said. batable how far it would help Satish Bhide said the BMC’s water connections. “We have Meanwhile, chief minis-
of an underconstruction SRA “Incest needs to be tackle an essentially social water supply to the houses to get a water tanker every ter Ashok Chavan will be
building in Kurla specifically in- problem. After all, countries would commence by Decem- three days, which costs Rs handing over 225 Mhada flats
troduced. with the most evolved laws ber 2011. However, the winners 1,400,’’ said a resident of the to MLAs, MLCs and ministers
Mansi Choksi & There’s also have high CSA rates. will be given possession by Di- Mhada colony in Versova. on May 12.
Pronoti Datta | TNN no provision Pooja Taparia, founder of
for violat- the NGO Arpan, said we must
isturbing reports ing a child’s train children to spot CSA. “If
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a draft of the Prevention of Of- sions of the Indian Penal Code ber of actual cases is higher
exploitation. Contact is not necessary. A person can face
fences Against the Child Bill are usually applied to CSA cas- than official figures. Often fam-
2009, drawn up by the Nation- es. Section 354 criminalises ten years for performing a sexual act before a child ily members are unsympa-
al Commission for Protection outraging the modesty of a Thailand | The country has tough laws as sex trafficking is thetic, embarrassed or disbe-
of Child Rights, is being de- woman and gives a maximum a major problem. Individuals convicted of rape or lieve the kids. As a result, kids
bated. The bill targets all forms sentence of two years; Section molestation of a child under 15 years face seven to 20 years suffer silently for years. Baj-
of violations against children, 375 punishes rape and carries pai said that one way to get
in jail. Anyone who has sex with a child aged 15 to 18 faces
like trafficking, physical vio- a minimum prison term of ten adults to report CSA is to make
lence, child labour, use of chil- years; and Section 377 crimi- a fine and one to three years. Traffickers face up to 20 years it legally mandatory .
dren in armed conflict and sex- nalises sodomy and has a min- In the 2009-10 academic
ual abuse. But observers said imum penalty of ten years. this,’’ Chaudhry said. pose somebody watches a child year, Arpan found that of 394
that while a comprehensive Much of the sexual abuse In the new bill, the defini- undress?’’ she asked. schoolchildren, 12% had ex-
law is needed in the long term, against children does not fit tion of child includes indi- perienced inappropriate be-
a legislation that targets CSA into Section 375, while Section viduals who are up to 18 years TRYING TIME haviour or touching and 2%
in particular should be an ur- 354 is too mild, said Bajpai. and the definition of sexual Apart from the laws them- had been sexually abused.
gent and immediate priority . And none of the laws, except assault has also been broad- selves, Chaudhry said there’s Taparia said that often the per-
Asha Bajpai, professor at for 377, can be used in cases ened. Whereas Section 375 lim- a need to change the way in petrator is known to the child.
the Tata Institute of Social Sci- where boys are abused. its rape to penetration, the bill which children are exposed to She also noticed a rising num-
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