India may look to curb judges' arbitrary sentences for criminals

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In September, Reuters reported that the government had slashed its goal of swiftly setting up thousands of such fast-track courts to try sex crimes.

India's judicial system is straining under a backlog of tens of millions of cases, including nearly 300,000 sexual offences against children, many of them in fast-track courts set up to exclusively try incidents of sexual assault.

The source said lower court judges often award the harshest punishment in such cases, given the outrage around the crimes.

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