India needs 1,000 special courts for rape, POCSO cases: Govt
Around 1,000 fast-track special courts need to come up across India as part of a scheme to dispose of rape and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) cases, the Law Ministry estimated. The scheme is part of an ordinance recently promulgated to allow courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping children aged up to 12 years.nn