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What stopped India’s “anti-rape” law from being a landmark?

So, three months after the outrage which sent thousands of Indians spilling out onto the streets to protest at the fatal gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi, the country’s parliamentarians were forced to sit up and listen and approve a tough new law to curb rising sexual violence against women.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has hailed the new “anti-rape” law – which means repeat rapists or those who leave their victims in a vegetative state can be hanged – as a law which would create a “revolution” in the largely patriarchal country.
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