Apex court unhappy over fund utilisation for rape victims

It also noted the absence of an integrated system of disbursal and management of the money allocated for compensating the victims.  The fund was announced by the Centre in 2013 after the sensational December 16, 2012 gangrape and murder case in Delhi to support initiatives of the government and the NGOs  working towards protecting the dignity and ensuring the safety of  women. 

The apex court observed that there was a lot of confusion on the issue as three ministries, Ministry of Home Affairs, Finance Ministry and Ministry of Women and Child Development, were involved in it, but they did not know what is to be done. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said though the Centre was disbursing funds to the states under the scheme, there appeared to be no system as to how and at what stage the sexual assault victims have to be compensated. 

“There seems to be no system as to how funds have to be disbursed, how victims have to be compensated and at what stage the compensation has to be paid. This is an unhappy state of affairs,” the bench said.