 "People hold a 200-ft-long Tricolour while taking part in a 'Tiranga March' to protest alleged communalisation of Kathua rape case, at India Gate in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: PTI")
The Union Cabinet on Saturday approved an ordinance to mete out stringent punishment to those convicted of raping girls below 12 years of age, amid a nation-wide outrage over the cases of sexual assault and murder of minors in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and Surat and the rape of a girl in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh.
The ordinance has prescribed measures as part of a mission mode project to be rolled out in three months.
New fast-track courts will be set up to deal with such cases and special forensic kits for rape cases will be given to all
