New Delhi: Observing that crimes against senior
citizens are similar to “epidemics” and require urgent and serious remedies, a
Delhi Sessions court has called on the government to counter the steep rise in
such crimes, by making them punishable with death. Additional Sessions judge
Narinder Kumar noted that while the lawmakers have recently taken steps to
provide for harsher punishment in cases of sexual offences, a similar move can
be considered for crimes committed on the elderly.
“Having regard to gravity of nature of sexual offences, the
Legislature has taken steps to provide for stricter punishments for the
criminals. This court feels that our wise representatives in Parliament should
provide for capital punishment 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 crimes against senior citizens,” the judge said.
The observation came while the court was awarding a jail
sentence to two men, Sunil Kumar and Arjun Sharma, convicted of conspiring to
rob a 70-year-old woman. According to the prosecution, the woman used to run a
shop near her home in Karol Bagh. On the day of the incident, Sharma and an accomplice
allegedly followed her to her home and attacked her by tying her hands and
feet. They then allegedly blindfolded the woman, and locked her inside the
bathroom, where they removed her jewellery before stealing money and gold from
her almirah.Prosecution said Sharma and his accomplice were given information
about the woman’s movements by Sunil Kumar, who worked as a domestic help in
the neighbouring house. The woman was eventually rescued by her son, who had
come to visit her.
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