When legislation is clear on crimes yet law enforcers ignore them, the public loses its sense of what is lawful and what is not.
THERE were two stories I read recently which were published side by side. One was about a 71-year-old man caught in a khalwat situation with a 14-year-old girl. Next to it was a story from India in which a 16-year-old boy was desperate to stop his parents from marrying off his 14-year-old sister but sadly was too late.
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