India has just approved promulgation of their Criminal Law to create a national database and profile of sexual offenders.

While it is unclear whether the registry will be public (as it is in the United States) or for law enforcement only (as it is in all other countries that have sex offender registries, such as; Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago), a registry will be formed, despite acknowledgement that the consensus of most studies and the opinions of international human rights organizations are that registries don’t work.

In addition to the registry, the law was also changed to impose the death penalty for rape of a child under 12.

Since most offenses are committed by someone known to the victim, even a family member, it will be interesting to see how the harsher rules reporting of these instances. They may want the offender punished, but if it is a parent, uncle, cousin, or grandparent, they may not want them to receive death.

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