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SCSupreme Court has directed the Centre to formulate a national policy for providing adequate reliefs to rape survivors as setting up of a separate fund like the Nirbhaya fund is not enough and amounted to just a lip service.

A vacation bench of Justices PC Pant and DY Chandrachud said that Central government must ensure that adequate relief is being provided to the victims of sexual offences. The court said, different states have different schemes and there is no national plan as how the rape victims are to be compensated.

The bench also issued notice to the Centre, all states and Union Territories and sought their responses on the effective implementation of Section 357(A) of the CrPC and status of victim compensation schemes, along with the number of victims of rape who have been compensated.

Six petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court between 2012-2013 after the Nirbhaya gangrape in Delhi on December 16, 2012 raising various concerns on safety and security of women. All the petitions were tagged by the apex court and several directions have been passed from time to time in this regard.

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