Justice Verma Panel

Justice JS Verma, who headed the anti-rape law panel, dies

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi (With inputs from agencies) | Tuesday April 23, 2013

Former Chief Justice of India Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma, who headed a three-member panel to examine laws on crimes against women, died today due to multiple organ failure. He was 80.

Supreme Court wants regulation in acid sales to prevent attacks

Press Trust of India | Wednesday February 6, 2013

Concerned with incidents of acid attacks, the Supreme Court today directed the Centre to convene in six weeks a meeting of Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories to address the menace and discuss framing of a law for treatment and comp...

We have accepted 90% of Justice Verma panel's recommendations: Law Minister to NDTV

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Sunday February 3, 2013

Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has rejected the allegations made by several women's rights groups who say that the union government has selectively accepted the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma commission on rape laws. The minister insists that th...

Rape law ordinance: Govt rejects JS Verma panel's recommendations on marital rape, review of AFSPA

Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Saturday February 2, 2013

The government has brought in an ordinance to introduce stricter penalties for crimes against women, including death in extreme cases, but ignored the Justice JS Verma commission's recommendations on criminalising marital rape and reviewing controver...

Read: Ordinance vs Verma commission recommendations

NDTV.com | Friday February 1, 2013

The government has brought in an ordinance that introduces tougher jail terms for crimes against women, including the death penalty for extreme cases of sexual assault. The ordinance incorporates some but not all of the recommendations of the Justice...

Cabinet to bring in ordinance for stronger penalties in rape cases

Edited by Surabhi Malik | Friday February 1, 2013

To demonstrate its commitment to protecting women after national outrage over the gang-rape of a medical student on a Delhi bus last month, the government has decided to issue an ordinance that implements the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma ...

How Justice Verma's 15 young legal lieutenants made a 600-page report in 29 days

Written by Sunetra Choudhury; Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday January 24, 2013

As Justice JS Verma, Justice Leila Seth and former solicitor general Gopal Subramaniam lap up praise for their 600 page report into how to make laws against sexual violence a bigger deterrent, there's another group of unknowns that are sitting back s...

Justice JS Verma panel's recommendations on sexual crime laws

Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday January 24, 2013

A three-member commission assigned to review laws for sexual crimes has submitted its report to the government on Wednesday. The panel was set up amid huge demonstrations by thousands of students who demanded tougher punishment for sexual offenders a...

Report on harsher punishment for crimes against women to be submitted to Home Ministry today

Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Wednesday January 23, 2013

Exactly a month after it was set up, the panel headed by former chief justice of India JS Verma, is likely to submit its report to the Home Ministry today. Sources say in the report, Justice Verma may recommend updating criminal laws to make them mor...

Give rapists harsher life term, says Congress in recommendations to judicial panel

Edited by Mala Das | Saturday January 5, 2013

Amid a growing national clamour for stringent punishment for rapists in the wake of the death of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi, the Congress today sent its recommendations to a panel constituted to review and strengthen laws on crimes agains...