{"id":28152,"date":"2018-10-24T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28152"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:31:17","slug":"ls-passes-bill-on-rape-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ls-passes-bill-on-rape-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"LS passes Bill on rape punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ls-passes-bill-on-rape-of-girls\/article24555802.ece\">LS passes Bill on rape punishment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It provides for death sentence for those convicted of raping those aged under 12.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><u>News:<\/u><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Recently, the Lok Sabha passed the Criminal Law(Amendment) Bill, 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><u> Key features of the Bill<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>It provides for death sentence for those convicted of raping those aged under 12.<\/li>\n<li>Enhances the minimum punishment for rape of a woman from seven to 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>It amends the IPC, CrPC, Indian Evidence Act and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill once passed, will replace the Criminal Law(Amendment )Ordinance promulgated in April 2018.<\/li>\n<li>The minimum punishment for the rape of a girl under 12 will be 20 years of rigorous imprisonment. The maximum being death sentence or life imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier the punishment was rigorous imprisonment ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>For gang-rape of a girl below 12, the punishment will be life imprisonment or death.<\/li>\n<li>The minimum punishment for rape of girl under 16 will be 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, extendable to life imprisonment. Earlier, it was 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of gang-rape of a girl below 16, the punishment will be life imprisonment. Earlier it was 10 years of rigorous imprisonemnt only.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill also provides for investigation of rape cases within two months from the registration of an FIR.<\/li>\n<li>For disposal of an appeal after conviction in lower court, the timeline would now be within six months. Earlier there was no timeline for this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LS passes Bill on rape punishment News: It provides for death sentence for those convicted of raping those aged under 12. \u00a0News: Recently, the Lok Sabha passed the Criminal Law(Amendment) Bill, 2018. Important facts: Key features of the Bill It provides for death sentence for those convicted of raping those aged under 12. Enhances the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ls-passes-bill-on-rape-punishment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LS passes Bill on rape punishment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904710},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}