New Delhi: Advocating death penalty for crimes
against senior citizens which have acquired “epidemic” proportions, a Delhi
court has said the law must change with passage of time and the Parliamentarians
should enhance punishment to teach a lesson to the offenders. Citing
legislative steps to provide stricter punishment for sexual offences,
Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar said lawmakers should provide for
capital punishment in cases where senior citizens are robbed and looted.
“If present remedy to prevent or curb the crime is
inadequate, concerned authorities have to ponder over for a better remedy. Even
a doctor would enhance the dose of the drug to provide relief to his patient.
After all, epidemics require urgent and serious remedies,” the judge said while
sentencing two youths Sunil Kumar and Arjun Sharma to 10 years in jail for
robbing a 70-year-old woman at knife point after trespassing her house. “Having
regard to gravity of nature of sexual offences, Legislature has taken steps to
provide for stricter punishments for the criminals.
“This court feels that our wise representatives in the
Parliament should provide for capital punishment of death in such cases also
where senior citizens are the victims, so as to teach a lesson to the offenders
and to deter others from indulging in crime against senior citizens,” the court
said.
The judge lamented that senior citizens are being targeted by
criminals day and night and it cannot be said that they are fully safe. “State
is duty bound to ensure their safety,” he underlined and deplored the rising
crimes against elderlies as being an “epidemic which require urgent and serious
remedies”.
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