Only women judges to try rape cases?

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    Economic Times, The (Mumbai, India), August 9, 2006 Editorials, 3pp
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    • Abstract:
      It will only ghettoise women judges Flavia Agnes Eminent Lawyer Mumbai The proposed amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), making it mandatory for rape cases to be tried only by women judges seems to be based on some superficial and erroneous notion. Underlying this mandate is a presumption that all male judges are sexist and all women judges, merely by virtue of their anatomy, are gender sensitive...