Now, Haryana passes bill for death to child rapists
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 16.03.2018
Chandigarh: Haryana on Thursday became the third state in the country to have passed a bill advocating death sentence for those convicted of raping girls up to 12 years of age. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are the two other states to have such a law.
The state assembly passed the Criminal Law (Haryana Amendment) Bill, 2018 to amend the Indian Penal Code 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012. The amendments would make the offence of rape liable to punishment with lifelong imprisonment and even death in extreme cases.
Offences of stalking and assault with an intent to outrage the modesty of the victim, the bill has proposed a sentence not less than two years and up to seven years.
The Manohar Lal Khattar cabinet had on February 28 approved “harsher punishment” after expressing anguish and concern over a series of rapes, especially of minor girls.
The bill was unanimously passed after the INLD and a majority of Congress legislators supported the government’s move. However, some Congress MLAs like Geeta Bhukkal, Kiran Chaudhary and Karan Singh Dalal proposed some changes in the bill.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 16.03.2018
Chandigarh: Haryana on Thursday became the third state in the country to have passed a bill advocating death sentence for those convicted of raping girls up to 12 years of age. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are the two other states to have such a law.
The state assembly passed the Criminal Law (Haryana Amendment) Bill, 2018 to amend the Indian Penal Code 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012. The amendments would make the offence of rape liable to punishment with lifelong imprisonment and even death in extreme cases.
Offences of stalking and assault with an intent to outrage the modesty of the victim, the bill has proposed a sentence not less than two years and up to seven years.
The Manohar Lal Khattar cabinet had on February 28 approved “harsher punishment” after expressing anguish and concern over a series of rapes, especially of minor girls.
The bill was unanimously passed after the INLD and a majority of Congress legislators supported the government’s move. However, some Congress MLAs like Geeta Bhukkal, Kiran Chaudhary and Karan Singh Dalal proposed some changes in the bill.
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