India commission urges tougher sex crime sentences

Worldwide, Daily news | | January 23, 2013 20:42

An Indian government commission tasked with looking at India’s sex crime laws after the gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus recommended a string of tougher sentences on Wednesday.
Gopal Subramanium, a member of the so-called Verma Commission, said that the maximum sentence for gang-rape should be raised to a full life term, meaning convicts must spend the the rest of their lives behind bars.

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