{"id":203476,"date":"2022-09-03T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203476"},"modified":"2022-09-03T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:10:03","slug":"stop-the-stalker-plug-legal-loopholes-tell-cops-to-adopt-zero-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stop-the-stalker-plug-legal-loopholes-tell-cops-to-adopt-zero-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the stalker: Plug legal loopholes, tell cops to adopt zero tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Stop the stalker: Plug legal loopholes, tell cops to adopt zero tolerance\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0<strong>The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Criminal Justice System<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Relevance:\u00a0stalking and problems associated with it<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Context: This article discusses about the problems related to stalking and police in India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since 2013, Stalking has been a clearly defined criminal offence. However, stalking incidents are still taking place. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently two stalking incidents took place \u2013 one in Jharkhand where a schoolgirl was burnt to death by a young man. In another such incident, in Delhi, a schoolgirl was shot despite a complaint to the police.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues associated with stalking?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The cases of stalking have increased from 1,091 in 2014 to 9,285 in 2021 and there are many cases with pending trial.<\/p>\n<p>Section 345D of IPC criminalizes stalking but the problem with the law is that it is bailable.<\/p>\n<p>Stalking should be made non-bailable like Sections 354 and 506 of IPC. The police should adopt zero tolerance against stalkers.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the problems faced by the police?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The police are exhausted due to the large amount of work. The ratio of police to population is also very less.<\/p>\n<p>There are fewer women police compared to men police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cStop the stalker: Plug legal loopholes, tell cops to adopt zero tolerance\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a03rd September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Criminal Justice System Relevance:\u00a0stalking and problems associated with it Context: This article discusses about the problems related to stalking and police in India. Since 2013, Stalking&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/stop-the-stalker-plug-legal-loopholes-tell-cops-to-adopt-zero-tolerance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop the stalker: Plug legal loopholes, tell cops to adopt zero tolerance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-203476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704755355},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}