TRIBUTE PAID TO
JUSTICE J.S VARMA
The
former Chief Justice of India, J.S. Verma, who recently chaired the panel that
came out with recommendations on improving women’s security, died on 22nd April,2013,Monday following
multiple organ failure. He was 80.Justice Verma was admitted to Medanta
Medicity Hospital in neighbouring Gurgaon on Friday with a serious liver
condition. His condition deteriorated rapidly. Justice Verma, who became the
27th CJI on March 25, 1997 and retired on January 18, 1998, was appointed
chairman of the three-member committee to suggest legal reforms to deal with
sexual assault cases in the wake of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape case in
Delhi.
The
committee, which included the former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High
Court, Justice Leila Seth, and the former Solicitor-General of India Gopal
Subramaniam, submitted its report within just 29 days following wide
consultation with all stakeholders.It recommended the death penalty in the
rarest of the rare rape cases and opposed lowering the age of a juvenile from
18 to 16. It also called for enhancing the minimum sentence for rape from seven
to 10-year jail.
Prof. John Kurakar
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