{"id":22123,"date":"2018-02-16T11:54:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=22123"},"modified":"2018-02-16T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T11:54:51","slug":"sc-slams-mp-for-mere-rs-6500-to-rape-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sc-slams-mp-for-mere-rs-6500-to-rape-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"SC slams MP for mere Rs 6,500 to rape victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nIs rape worth Rs 6,500? That\u2019s how a shocked Supreme Court today asked the Madhya Pradesh government while questioning the state whether it was doing a \u201ccharity\u201d by giving this meagre amount to the victims of sexual assaults.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court said it was shocking that Madhya Pradesh, which was among the states that had received maximum funds from the Centre under the Nirbhaya Fund scheme, was disbursing Rs 6,000-6,500 only to each rape victim.<\/p>\n<p>The Nirbhaya Fund scheme was announced by the Centre in 2013 after the sensational December 16, 2012, gang-rape and murder case in Delhi to support the initiatives of governments and the NGOs working for women\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>A Bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta, while perusing the affidavit filed by Madhya Pradesh, said, \u201cAccording to you (Madhya Pradesh) and your affidavit, on an average, you are paying Rs 6,000 to a rape victim. Are you doing a charity? How can you do so&#8230;. You value a rape at Rs 6,500?&#8230; this is total insensitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Is rape worth Rs 6,500? That\u2019s how a shocked Supreme Court today asked the Madhya Pradesh government while questioning the state whether it was doing a \u201ccharity\u201d by giving this meagre amount to the victims of sexual assaults. The apex court said it was shocking that Madhya Pradesh, which was among the states [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22125,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22123\/revisions\/22125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}