{"id":7311,"date":"2020-01-11T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T06:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2020-01-13T19:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T19:04:37","slug":"india-to-setup-1023-fast-track-special-courts-for-safety-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-to-setup-1023-fast-track-special-courts-for-safety-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"India to setup 1023 Fast Track Special Courts for Safety of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Incidents of rape and gang rape of minor girls below age of\ntwelve years and similar heinous crimes against women have shaken the\nconscience of the entire nation. Therefore, the offences of rape and gang rape\nof women and children require effective deterrence through fast and time bound\ncompletion of trial relating to sexual offences. To bring out more stringent\nprovisions and expeditious trial and disposal of such cases, Union of India\nenacted the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The has taken up work of setting up of Fast Track Special\nCourts (FTSCs) as a part of National Mission for Safety of Women (NMSW).\nAccordingly, the Central Government has started a Scheme for setting up of 1023\nFTSCs across the country based on pendency of subject cases obtained from\nvarious High Courts (1,66,882 numbers as on 31.03.2018) for time bound trial\nand disposal of pending cases related to rape and POCSO Act.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidents of rape and gang rape of minor girls below age of twelve years and similar heinous crimes against women have shaken the conscience of the entire nation. Therefore, the offences of rape and gang rape of women and children require effective deterrence through fast and time bound completion of trial relating to sexual offences. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,8],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7313,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions\/7313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}