The
arrest of 17-year-old in the outrageous sexual assault and slaughter of Delhi
victim, Nirbhaya in December 16, 2013 and 16-year-old in the heinous sexual assault
of Mumbai journalist in August 22, 2013 reveal the alarming rates of the involvement
of juveniles in heinous sexual assaults. In both the cases, the juvenile sexually
assaulted the girls atrociously but what was more shocking was that the Child Welfare
Society and Human Right Activists were up in arms demanding that they should
not be punished, being juveniles.
According
to Juvenile Justice Act, a person below 18 year can only be given a maximum of
three years of punishment as well as his
identity is forbidden to be published. The
juvenile is being tried as a minor on charges including murder and rape.
Having
done such a heinous crime, he being a juvenile the gravity of crime committed
can’t be diluted and can’t be seen as a mere mistake of a young adult. Having
done such a gruesome crime at the very young age, exposes the criminal in him
and once he is grown up definitely he would make himself a big criminal.
The
Human Rights Activists that he is minor so his crime should be pardoned as he
has a future ahead. But he equally deserves gregarious punishment that the
other accused men would be rewarded with. Any act that is committed willfully
is a crime and the chronological age of the accused should not be the
predominant consideration while punishing the accused instead his mental age
and the magnitude of the crime itself should be the prime thought.
One’s
maturity is judged measuring the gap between his chronological age and mental
age. A person is said to be immature when his mental age is very low compared
to his chronological age whereas he is said to be mature when his mental age is
higher than his chronological age. In the case of the juvenile accused, his
mental age would be higher than his chronological age and that is why he is mentally
fit to commit such a gruesome crime. At the so-called young age, he is in such
a mental disposition to commit gruesome crime which grownup men are not daring
to commit. Perhaps, the juvenile should be given double punishment for having
done such a heinous act and their raping tool should be chopped off.
No
matter whether the offender is juvenile or grown up, if both the parties have
committed the same crime both of them deserve to get equal punishment. If age
is not a factor in committing the crime it should not be an aspect while
rewarding the punishment. Not punishing the juvenile offenders for having
committed gruesome crimes would only encourage the juvenile flock to indulge in
similar horrid crimes. In the past one
decade, rape and abduction of women by juvenile recorded a 143% shoot up. This
points to the fact that the country needs strict rules to chock juvenile
crimes. The juvenile accused should be treated similarly like grownup man
committing the crime. It is bizarre to judge the crime based on the age of the
culprit because a crime is always a crime.
Not
punishing the accused juvenile would give the deemed license of the remaining
juvenile to indulge in such crimes. Exempting the juveniles from the committed
sin and rewarding them with lighter punishment would stealthily promote a
message that they can indulge in such crime if they wish to.
A
man who is ditched by his girlfriend wants to take vengeance on his former
girlfriend could easily get a juvenile with a criminal mindset to molest or sexually
assaults her thus, the juvenile gets his portion of sexual pleasure as well as
money and he would be get only a lighter punishment. Now there is a trend of
using juvenile for such crimes.
As
there is progression in every sphere of life, there is advancement of crime
committed by youngsters. The advent of internet and modern media have exposed juveniles
to porn movies, video clips, filthy films, pictures and above all to all
possible perverted entertainments. All these keep the juveniles sexually active
as well as charged thus, committing the sexual assaults.
In
the wake of the alarming rates of juvenile crimes, National Commission for
Women demands reducing the age of juveniles from 18 years to 16 years. As the
18 years of age is milestone to exercise one's franchise, below 18 years of age
sounds to be a deemed license to sexually assault women when juvenile being exempted
from committed sexual assaults.
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Crime is a crime no matter who does it. There are worser guys commenting on girls with full crowd around, saying things like I'd fuck you right here. All those people should be hit on their faces right there, but people mostly wouldn't react until he actually does something. Now this issue has made the whole nation stand up for it.
ReplyDeleteBe it a juvenile, the law should be common for all. Kids till 10 years of age can be exempted from crimes like murders but above that age, they know what they're doing so JJA should be reduced to kids of 10/12 years of age.
But one good thing about letting him go can serve a purpose. Wherever he walks, people will know that this is him. Now he'll feel insulted every single day to face all those people walking on the streets looking at him like that. He might end up travelling away to some place else. His face should be known to all. The angry public will take care. Atleast he'll get depressed in guilt for the rest of his life.