Madras HC rules castration of rapists as a solution for rising sex offences against children
Q. Which HC has indicated that castration of rapists is the solution for spiralling sex offences against children on 25th October 2015?- Published on 26 Oct 15a. Madras
b. New Delhi
c. Patna
d. Guwahati
ANSWER: Madras
Madras HC has ruled that castration should be performed on child rapists. This would curb crimes against children. In case of child sex offences, the conviction rate is just 2.4 percent and between 2008 to 2014, crimes against children increased by 400 percent. Additional punishment of castration of child rapists would prevent and contain child abuses, the court ruled. Chemical castration has now come into force in several nations including the US. The court passed the judgement on a plea from a foreigner facing pedophile charges in TN. Castration is done on child sex abusers in Poland, Russia, Estonia and nine US states including California, Oregon, Florida, Texas and Washington. S. Korea has become the first Asian nation to make castration of child sex offenders a punishment. Number of cases of child abuse rose from 38,172 in 2012 to 58,224 in 2013 and to 89,423 in 2014 in India.
