Monday 2 November 2009

'Sec 377 should'vebeen applied'



AGPUR: P K Sathianathan, former district government pleader and public prosecutor, said that the police should have immediately slapped Section
377 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Avinash Janvey. "Once there is a specific allegation and there is a prima facie case, police should not dither in applying the relevant sections.

Instead of trying to avoid the hassle of deleting the sections at a later stage, police should get the case medically approved. Instead of waiting for the medical report to arrive, just apply Section 511 of Indian Penal Code too. This section is applied to cases where at least an attempt was made even if the actual was not committed," said Sathianathan exposing the lacuna in police action.

According to a social worker, police should not take the offences related to minor and sex offences lightly. "The eagerness the cops show at naka-bandis should be channelised into conducting proper investigations into sensitive cases like this one," said he.

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