Comments on: Justice Verma Committee report on rape laws addresses sexuality concerns

By: Remembering Justice JS Verma | orinam

Remembering Justice JS Verma | orinam — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:34:17 +0000

[…] The second of the reasons would be the immense contribution that the Committee headed by Justice Verma made in addressing sexuality concerns while recommending changes to rape laws. The report inter alia recommended that sexual assault be made gender neutral thus understanding the gendered nature of sexual violence. A detailed analysis of the Verma Committee Report by Orinam is available here. […]

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Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:02:06 +0000

[…] Calls for the legal protection of gay/lesbian/transgender individuals subject to sexual assault, harassment and rape due to their sexual orientation. This is also in […]

By: Einaayat

Einaayat — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:18:29 +0000

just to add on rephrasing part – female to female should also be considered.

By: Shekhar Sen

Shekhar Sen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:44:20 +0000

Bravo!

The world would be a better place to live in if we had more people like Justice Verma, Justice Seth and Gopal Subramaniam.

By: Minal

Minal — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:12:45 +0000

Overall it seems like a great proposed revision. I would also question the definition of a perpetrator as always being “a man.” Clearly women and transgender people are also capable of sexual assault, especially if the definition is to include cunnilingus and fellatio as in the proposed revision.

By: kinsey3

kinsey3 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:59:41 +0000

Kudos to Justice Verma and the committee!

In 2011, Justice Verma, representing National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) slapped a fine on TV9 for their extremely offensive expose of gay websites in Hyderabad (see https://new2.orinam.net/the-tv9-debacle/).

As Privacy India notes “By holding that the “Programme needlessly violated the right to privacy of individuals with possible alternate sexual orientation, no longer considered taboo or a criminal act” the order advances, “not wholly or in full measure but very substantially” the important feat of constitutionalization of criminal and civil law in aid of sexuality minorities in India that was achieved by the Naz Foundation case.”

http://privacy-india.org/2011/03/25/news-broadcasting-standards-authority-censures-tv9-over-privacy-violations/

We need more Justice Vermas!