{"id":30564,"date":"2018-10-26T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30564"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:15:04","slug":"haryana-assembly-okays-death-penalty-for-child-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/haryana-assembly-okays-death-penalty-for-child-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana Assembly okays death penalty for child rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/tp-otherstates\/haryana-assembly-okays-death-penalty-for-child-rape\/article23266642.ece\"><strong>Haryana Assembly okays death penalty for child rape<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Haryana Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a Bill which provides for death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or less.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third State to do so<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Haryana has become the third State where the Assembly has approved the provision of capital punishment for such sexual offenders<\/p>\n<p><strong>Provisions of the bill<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under section <strong><u>376-AA<\/u><\/strong>, in case of rape of a girl up to 12 years of age, there will be a punishment of death or rigorous imprisonment of not less than 14 years which may extend to imprisonment for life that is for remainder period of persons natural life, according to the legislation.<\/li>\n<li>A provision <strong><u>376-DA<\/u><\/strong> has also been added after section 376-D of the penal code.<\/li>\n<li>Under section&#8211;376-DA, if a girl upto 12 years of age is raped by one or more persons constituting a group, each of those persons shall be deemed to have committed the offence of rape and will be punished with death or rigorous imprisonment for a term which will not be less than 20 years, but which may extend to life along with a fine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Making existing criminal laws stringent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The punishment under Section 354 of the IPC (Assault or criminal force against woman with intent to outrage her modesty) will not be less than two years (earlier not less than one year) but may extend up to seven years (earlier up to five years).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Provision of fine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new additions also include provisions of fining the convict and any such fine will be paid to the victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haryana Assembly okays death penalty for child rape What has happened? The Haryana Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a Bill which provides for death penalty to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 years or less. Third State to do so After Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Haryana has become the third State where the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/haryana-assembly-okays-death-penalty-for-child-rape\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Haryana Assembly okays death penalty for child rape<\/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-30564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704804703},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564","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=30564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}