I’m personally against the death penalty because it is impossible to devise a system where innocents never get punished. (One innocent person getting executed is one too many in my book.)

“I thought the BJP govt can take up all these matters , but these seem to be dancing to the tunes of Ambanis.”

Ambanis own Indian Government which they lease it to the BJP/Congress from time to time.

Very likely justice will prevail in this case as it generally does in all cases which are publicized by social media or the press. My concern is secret abuse which are hidden from social media and the press. Shouldn’t our focus be on that?

I have my ideas on how to dramatically reduce crime in America, Canada, Europe, muslim world and India. But they might not be completely right. I would love feedback from everyone else.

Well let me throw out some random ideas for all of your feedback in this comment:
1) encourage love [Yeah this basically solves crime]
2) transform culture [How?]
3) it is unclear to me what role per capita real income plays in crime. Even the direction of correlation is unclear to me.
3a) it is unclear to me what role physical health plays in crime. Even the direction of correlation is unclear to me.
3b) IQ appears to be strongly negatively correlated with crime. [High IQ people are rarely prosecuted for violent crime. Is this because they are intelligent and rarely get caught or because they don’t commit crime?]
4) Improve mental health broadly defined (Chitta Shuddhi in Sanskrit), which to me is synonymous with character, authenticity, purity, clear headedness. What affect will this have?
5) Higher more judges, more attorneys, police . . . pay them a heck of a lot more
6) Train police in Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, martial arts, breathing, meditation [Which is expensive.]
7) Give judges and police a lot more flexibility in dealing with criminals and keeping crimes out of the public record

Enough for now. Zack, trying to keep this from being your longest comment of all time 😉

+1000 BJP dancing to the tune of the Ambanis

“It isn’t that existing punishments aren’t deterrent enough and we need more brutal punishments ”

Probably not – and the way this are dragged out for years and years makes it worse. It is not whether the existing punishments are deterrent enough, it is the way you can keep on dragging it for decades by getting high power lawyers by paying them money, street demonstrations, petitons to the President, making that a legal excuse, and so on and so forth. etc. Even if the present punishments are quickly carried out giving no quarters to dilatory and dragging tactics that would be good. Any judicial process not done quickly enough makes out the state weak , vacillating, nervous and easy touch.

Apart from these high profile cases, there are thousands of cases languishing for years. That is an utter shame. I thought the BJP govt can take up all these matters , but these seem to be dancing to the tunes of Ambanis.

Inshallah

It isn’t that existing punishments aren’t deterrent enough and we need more brutal punishments (how about breaking rapists on the wheel, or waterboarding them to death ? At what point does “strong” cross over into “barbaric” ?)

The reason so many rapes occur in India is that the guilty have a high likelihood that NOTHING will happen to them. The infamous Nirbhaya case was perpetrated by criminals ON THE JOB with absolutely zero attempt made to cover their tracks. There were even other passengers on the bus when the assault began who were chased off. The guilty assumed that no investigation would be launched.

There have to be some consequences for the police in whose jurisdictions such crimes occur. Trust me, the roads will become safe within no time.

Jesus Christ – who cares?

South Asia is a poor region that can’t afford ideology..

If it prevents further instances of this rape it’s absolutely worth it.

That is textbook consequentialism and not morally tenable as an argument. Ends do not justify means. Besides that’s a big “if”.

I agree with Slapstik (can’t believe I’m saying that).