--- description: The court said "barbaric crimes should definitely attract barbaric models of punishment" title: Child Rapists Should Be Castrated, Indian Court Says image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt055a168d076ebd72/698869c55f570f5853b1e032/gettyimages-90562899.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Child Rapists Should Be Castrated, Indian Court Says by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 26, 2015 6:47 AM CUT  View of the Chennai High Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on Sept. 6, 2006. View of the Chennai High Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on Sept. 6, 2006.HK Rajashekhar—India Today Group/Getty Images by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 26, 2015 6:47 AM CUT A court in southern India has urged the government to institute [castration as a punishment](http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/allow-castration-of-child-rapists-madras-high-court-tells-centre-1236308?pfrom=home-lateststories "undefined") for those convicted of raping minors, according to an order published Sunday. The judge who made the call at the Madras High Court in the state of Tamil Nadu earlier this month said crimes against children have rapidly increased despite a strict existing law, Indian broadcaster NDTV reported. He also cited specific figures that showed the number of such cases nearly tripled — from around 38,000 to just under 90,000 — between 2012 and 2014. “The law is ineffective and incapable of addressing the menace,” said Justice N. Kirubakaran, while denying a plea for dismissal by a British man convicted of molesting a 15-year-old boy in 2011\. The man, who pledged to pay for his victim’s education, had an Interpol notice against him temporarily suspended so he could return to India to stand trial. “The court is sure the castration of child rapists will fetch magical results,” Kirubakaran added, highlighting that castration as a possible punishment already exists in Poland, Russia and many parts of the U.S. “Though the suggestion of castration looks barbaric, barbaric crimes should definitely attract barbaric models of punishment and the very thought of the punishment should deter the culprit from committing the offense,” he said. \[[_NDTV_](http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/allow-castration-of-child-rapists-madras-high-court-tells-centre-1236308?pfrom=home-lateststories "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4086696/madras-high-court-child-rape-castration/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4086696/madras-high-court-child-rape-castration/"},"headline":"Child Rapists Should Be Castrated, Indian Court Says","datePublished":"2015-10-26T06:47:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:04:08.329Z","description":"\"Barbaric crimes should definitely attract barbaric models of punishment\"","url":"https://time.com/4086696/madras-high-court-child-rape-castration/","keywords":["Rape","India","Government","Narendra Modi","court"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt055a168d076ebd72/698869c55f570f5853b1e032/gettyimages-90562899.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt055a168d076ebd72/698869c55f570f5853b1e032/gettyimages-90562899.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"View of the Chennai High Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ( for the State of the States )","caption":"View of the Chennai High Court in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ( for the State of the States )","creditText":"HK Rajashekhar—India Today Group/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4086696/madras-high-court-child-rape-castration/","name":"Child Rapists Should Be Castrated, Indian Court Says"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Delhi Gang Rape: TIME Talks to Suspect's Family","description":"TIME correspondent Krista Mahr visits Delhi gang rape suspect Ram Singh's village to examine the social and economic causes behind the increase in gender-based crime in Delhi.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/VmM8gABA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-03-14T20:17:49.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VmM8gABA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4086696/madras-high-court-child-rape-castration/","duration":"PT6M53S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4086696/madras-high-court-child-rape-castration/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```