Not only is the sentence meted out to the young boys from impoverished background too harsh, but our fear is that it will set a bad precedent and ser… - Flavia Agnes

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Not only is the sentence meted out to the young boys from impoverished background too harsh, but our fear is that it will set a bad precedent and serve to dilute the "rarest of rare" premise upon which a verdict of death penalty must hinge as per our criminal jurisprudence. While most countries are moving towards abolition of death penalty, this is a move in the reverse direction.

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About Flavia Agnes

Flavia Agnes (born 1947) is an Indian legal scholar and women's rights activist.

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He does not seem to have understood the gravity of the offence. India's elite lauded the amendments to the IPC, widening the definition of rape, little realizing that they did not apply simply to lower-class men, but could affect them too. While there has been much clamour for the death penalty in cases of rape involving the lower classes, would the elite now like to apply this to themselves?

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