and added that unless the FIR is registered and investigation done properly, the stage of trial will not come.
"Not only FIR, a women suffering sexual assault goes to complain, first of all the FIR is not recorded. If recorded, then she is sent for medical examination, you see, much worse than what has already to happened to her, she is subjected to (during) medical examination," Verma said.
Verma also spoke on the issue of judicial reforms. He said that he had in 2005 written to Prime Minister on the issue of a uniform retirement age for judges. He also said that if infrastructure was a constraint, court buildings could be used for a second shift.
Verma said that he had also said if there was a shortage, there could be a provision of ad-hoc judges and observed that people of his fraternity were doing so many things after retirement.
He said that in the report, the committee had paid specific attention to the issue of khap panchayats and asked what the institutions of governance were doing.
Speaking further, he rued that the government was still to do anything on the issue of sexual harassment at the workplace addressed in the Vishkha judgement.
In a question related to the role of the juvenile in the Delhi gangrape case, Verma said that he would not like to comment as the matter was sub judice. He however added that laws were made for general application and not for particular case.
He added that even if a stringent law was made, it could not be applied retrospectively.
He said that a lot of juvenile came from a background which determines their criminality and added that this aspect also had to be dealt with.
