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Badal favours fast-track courts for rape cases

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Press Trust of India Fatehgarh Sahib
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 6:57 AM IST

Rape cases should also be tried in fast-track courts to ensure speedy justice to victims, he told reporters here

"Carrying out amendments in the existing provisions of rape laws for awarding harsh punishment to culprits is within the domain of the Centre," he said.

Rape should be made a non-bailable offence, Badal said after paying obeisance at the Sri Fatehgarh Sahib gurudwara here.

He said he had already requested the Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court to set up fast-track courts for dealing with rape cases.

Badal said his government was committed to enforce the provisions of the rape laws in the state in right earnest.

On the Delhi gangrape case, he demanded exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of the crime.

  

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First Published: Dec 25 2012 | 9:45 PM IST

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