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While the debate over the controversial Bombay high court verdict, which held that absence of “skin to skin contact” meant it wasn’t sexual assault, rages for its restrictive interpretation of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, child rights activists and lawyers said another aspect has been inconspicuously affecting legal outcomes in such cases the minimum sentence provision.
“We have been resisting the three-year minimum sentence from the very beginning. We can’t ignore the fact that judges are increasingly going to do this,” said Bharti Ali, executive director of Delhi-based child rights NGO Haq. Child rights lawyer Anant Kumar Asthana concurred: “When judges are reluctant to award the minimum mandatory sentence in a given case, where they don t think that kind of severe punishment is warranted, they find a way out. When minimum mandatory punishments were being introduced, many of us had cautioned this could happen.”
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Launch of new BCIT-KIIT JV (via KIIT announcement)
Indian Institute of Law (IIL) in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, under an MOU with with the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT).
KIIT, which also operates a private law school, would supply the land in Bhubaneswar and pay for 40% of the costs of infrastructure development of the new campus.
The IIL was launched by BCI functionaries on 29 January and promises to be a “model institute of law teachers’ academy, continues legal education and research”.
Further details about its exact purpose, ambit and the financials are a bit sparse on the ground at the moment.
The cases covered matters in Asia, Europe, North America and South America and Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former prime minister of Denmark and co-chair of the Oversight Board called it an important milestone.