Reforming India's rape laws

Witness History

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🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In January 2013 the Indian government began to overhaul the country's laws on rape following the brutal gang rape and killing of a 23 year old physiotherapy student in Delhi. The public outcry across India forced the government to commission a legal review. Farhana Haider has been speaking to Gopal Subramanium, one of the three senior lawyers tasked with reforming the way India tackled violence against women.

(Photo: Justice Leila Seth. Justice J Verma and Justice Gopal Subramanium and team deliver their report. January 2013. Credit: Permission of Gopal Subramanium)

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0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Cladie Aide.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds.
1:08.0	Hello. Hello and thank you for downloading this edition of the Witness History podcast with me for Hana Hither each day first-hand accounts of events that shaped our world.
1:15.0	Today I'm taking you back to January 2013 when the Indian government began to overhaul the
1:20.8	country's laws against rape. It followed the gang rape and
1:24.9	killing of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi. The crime was brutal. The victim was severely beaten, gang raped, then thrown off a moving bus.
1:38.0	It led to growing public outrage across India and prompted the Prime Minister
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