Anti-Rape Bill (Criminal Amendment Bill)
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Lok Sabha on 19th March 2013 passed Criminal amendment Bill aiming to toughen laws dealing with crime against women. The bill provides natural life term or even death for repeat offenders of rape. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 commonly known as the anti-rape bill was passed by Rajya Sabha after amendments moved by Left MPs were defeated.
Important provisions in the Ordinance
New Offences:-
This new Ordinance created some new offenses or have expressedly
created certain offenses which were dealt under related laws. These new
offences like, acid attack, sexual harassment, voyeurism, stalking has
been incorporated into the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Section
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Offence
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Punishment
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Notes
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| 326A | Acid attack | Imprisonment not less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life and with fine which may extend to ten lakh rupees | Gender neutral |
| 326B | Attempt to Acid attack | imprisonment not less than five years but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine | Gender neutral |
| 354A | Sexual harassment | Rigorous imprisonment upto five years, or with fine, or with both in case of offence described in clauses (i) & (ii)Imprisonment upto one year, or with fine, or with both in other cases | Gender neutral(i) physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures; or(ii) a demand or request for sexual favours; or
(iii) making sexually coloured remarks; or (iv) forcibly showing pornography; or (v) any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of sexual nature. |
| 354B | Public disrobing of woman | Imprisonment not less than three years but which may extend to seven years and with fine. | Assaults or uses criminal force to any woman or abets such act with the intention of disrobing or compelling her to be naked in any public place |
| 354C | Voyeurism | In case of first conviction, imprisonment not less than one year, but which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine, and be punished on a second or subsequent conviction, with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than three years, but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine. | Watching or capturing a woman in “private act”, which includes an act of watching carried out in a place which, in the circumstances, would reasonably be expected to provide privacy, and where the victim’s genitals, buttocks or breasts are exposed or covered only in underwear; or the victim is using a lavatory; or the person is doing a sexual act that is not of a kind ordinarily done in public. |
| 354D | Stalking | Imprisonment not less than one year but which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine | Gender neutral. Whoever follows a person and contacts, or attempts to contact such person to foster personal interaction repeatedly, despite a clear indication of disinterest by such person, or whoever monitors the use by a person of the internet, email or any other form of electronic communication, or watches or spies on a person in a manner that results in a fear of violence or serious alarm or distress in the mind of such person, or interferes with the mental peace of such person, commits the offence of stalking |
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