Fast track courts to come up for domestic violence cases: Law Minister
11/14/2009
11/14/2009
Union Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily said fast track courts will be developed immediately for meting out speedy justice to women in domestic violence cases.
Speaking at the inauguration of the third national conference on the Implementation of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, Mr Moily said, 'Whatever proposals are forwarded to the Law Ministry by the National Commission of Women, we will accept them readily. We will also implement fast track courts immediately to mete out justice in domestic violence cases.' Calling the 2005 Act on domestic violence revolutionary, the Minister said the law further needed to be firmed up in providing custody for the accused and payment for child care.
He also expressed concern over the need to address the resource constraints that were hindering the implementation of the Act.
'I will talk to the Planning Commission about it,' he said.
'We also need to sensitise the judicial system in bringing women judges in all courts. We will also deploy the legal fraternity in the campaign on domestic violence against women,' he concluded.
He lamented that domestic violence had not received the kind of opposition smoking or other wrong activities had got and said cases of women and children will get priority in all courts of the country from the district level to the Supreme Court.
Saying that laws could not stop at home or family, Mr Moily said the judiciary and his Ministry would ensure that domestic violence was firmly dealt with.
UNI
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