Congratulations!!!!!
To all the Ladies Co Members
Three Cheers:) :) :)
The highly awaited Anti Rape Bill has been PASSED on 22 March 2013 .
The mention below article has brief for the same
Two days after the Lower House (Lok Sabha) cleared the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill; the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of Indian Parliament has given its seal of approval to the much awaited new and tougher Anti-rape Bill on Thursday. The Bill would now become a Law once President Pranab Mukherjee ratifies it and issues a notification for its implementation, which is expected very soon. The new anti-rape Bill would have to replace the Ordinance promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on February 3 last. Clearance of the Bill by both the Houses of the Parliament well ahead of April 4 deadline when the Ordinance would have lapsed, despite heated debates and arguments over the last few months, is indeed welcome. Even if protection of women from sexual crimes has always been an issue in India, after the gruesome gang-rape of a 23-year old woman by six persons including a juvenile in a moving bus at the National capital on December 16 last year and her subsequent death 13 days later in a hospital at Singapore, the need for a tougher legislation to protect women from violence and crimes of every sort had been felt more strongly. The new Bill, which will amend the existing India’s penal code and laws of criminal procedure and evidence, has been consequently drafted in response to widespread protests over the now infamous Delhi gang rape.
For the first time in India, the new Bill has prescribed death penalty for sex offenders in ‘rarest of rare cases’ where a rape leaves a woman dead or in a ‘persistent vegetative state’. At a time when global trend is moving towards the abolition of death sentence and as many as 140 countries around the world have today abolished executions in law or in practice, whether awarding death penalty would actually works as a deterrent from committing the crime of rape or not is still debatable. Nonetheless, prescribing death sentence in the new anti-rape Bill has shown that India and its people are very serious about the growing culture of rape in the country. Another interesting feature in the new anti-rape Bill is the broader definition of rape and punishments for other sex crimes like stalking including e-stalking, groping, voyeurism, etc, which most people have so far considered less offensive. The Bill has also laid down punishment for police officers who fail to record the initial complaint of a woman who alleges she was attacked with acid, assaulted by a man who intended to molest her or “outrage her modesty,” stripped naked or raped. Such officers can receive jail terms of six months to two years. More significantly, the Bill allows women to bring a complaint of rape against members of the armed forces. Now, that a new and tougher anti-rape Bill is in place, what is left to be done is to ensure its strict implementation, without which passing any number of anti-rape Bills not be able to bring down crimes against women.
At last we are safe!
Regards,
Shubha
Fb Id:)
From India, Patna
55To all the Ladies Co Members
Three Cheers:) :) :)
The highly awaited Anti Rape Bill has been PASSED on 22 March 2013 .
The mention below article has brief for the same
Two days after the Lower House (Lok Sabha) cleared the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill; the Upper House (Rajya Sabha) of Indian Parliament has given its seal of approval to the much awaited new and tougher Anti-rape Bill on Thursday. The Bill would now become a Law once President Pranab Mukherjee ratifies it and issues a notification for its implementation, which is expected very soon. The new anti-rape Bill would have to replace the Ordinance promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee on February 3 last. Clearance of the Bill by both the Houses of the Parliament well ahead of April 4 deadline when the Ordinance would have lapsed, despite heated debates and arguments over the last few months, is indeed welcome. Even if protection of women from sexual crimes has always been an issue in India, after the gruesome gang-rape of a 23-year old woman by six persons including a juvenile in a moving bus at the National capital on December 16 last year and her subsequent death 13 days later in a hospital at Singapore, the need for a tougher legislation to protect women from violence and crimes of every sort had been felt more strongly. The new Bill, which will amend the existing India’s penal code and laws of criminal procedure and evidence, has been consequently drafted in response to widespread protests over the now infamous Delhi gang rape.
For the first time in India, the new Bill has prescribed death penalty for sex offenders in ‘rarest of rare cases’ where a rape leaves a woman dead or in a ‘persistent vegetative state’. At a time when global trend is moving towards the abolition of death sentence and as many as 140 countries around the world have today abolished executions in law or in practice, whether awarding death penalty would actually works as a deterrent from committing the crime of rape or not is still debatable. Nonetheless, prescribing death sentence in the new anti-rape Bill has shown that India and its people are very serious about the growing culture of rape in the country. Another interesting feature in the new anti-rape Bill is the broader definition of rape and punishments for other sex crimes like stalking including e-stalking, groping, voyeurism, etc, which most people have so far considered less offensive. The Bill has also laid down punishment for police officers who fail to record the initial complaint of a woman who alleges she was attacked with acid, assaulted by a man who intended to molest her or “outrage her modesty,” stripped naked or raped. Such officers can receive jail terms of six months to two years. More significantly, the Bill allows women to bring a complaint of rape against members of the armed forces. Now, that a new and tougher anti-rape Bill is in place, what is left to be done is to ensure its strict implementation, without which passing any number of anti-rape Bills not be able to bring down crimes against women.
At last we are safe!
Regards,
Shubha
Fb Id:)
From India, Patna
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