Be a judge ... issue no. 2

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Ok... the scenario is every other day we hear about rapes and gang rapes. The issue has become as common as the detergent advertisement. So yesterday a minor was gang raped, and there were minors among the rapists. International bodies like Amnesty need to understand that a juvenile in the west comes up in a different scenario when compared to a juvenile in my country. The law and order takes quite some time to really punish, and punishments are laughable. Given such a scenario, don't you think a boy even if he is just 11 or 12, if he is capable of raping, then he needs to be tried for rape, notwithstanding his age. And that parents need to be punished too with some financial fine for not having brought up the kid well. At the risk of sounding communist .. I feel each one of us has duty towards the country and society. Which takes precedence depends upon the situation. But these duties are sacrosanct and above the duties towards family. Failure to do those duties is to be treated as anti national act. So we should respect the rights granted by constitution to fellow citizen, minor or not. If those rights are infringed due to some act of mine, I should expect punishment equivalent to that I give to a terrorist. The punishment needs to be defined upfront so as to work as a deterrent. Why is a rapist equal to a terrorist? He disrespected the clauses in the constitution through which the victim derived her rights to live safely in this country. The rapist should be penalized monetarily, and if he cannot afford to pay that much his next generations or siblings would pay. This amount should keep on increasing at inflation rate. Limitation act should not apply to such puinshment.