Implement measures for welfare, rehabilitation of rape victims, High Court tells Punjab, Haryana

The Court, meanwhile, noted that the schemes for financial assistance to the victim have already been notified and the grievance is addressed.

During the hearing of the case, Amicus Curiae Tanu Bedi suggested measures for improvement of shelter home for women/ rape victims as well as the conditions of the unborn child/ child born out of the rape.

The suggestions by Bedi for rehabilitation of victims of sexual assault included a one stop centre to assist rape victims to overcome the trauma and consequence of the assault, where victims of all kinds of sexual assault be provided with regular psychological and emotional counselling.

Bedi stressed upon that these centres should assist the victim to take an informed decision for termination or continuation of the pregnancy as per victims’s wishes and desires.

“In addition to monetary compensation, as otherwise stipulated under various provisions of law, all expenses for MTP (medical termination of pregnancy) or pre-natal, post natal case, should be borne by the State”, suggested Bedi.

The amicus curiae submitted that shelter homes should offer experience of normal life and not where there is seclusion from social life under the pretext of security issues.

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