Rape Laws Ordinance

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  Law Allowing Death Penalty For Rape Of Children Cleared By Parliament

  Parliament today passed a stringent legislation prescribing death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years and making the law against such sexual offences harsher.

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  Centre To Amend Child Sex Abuse Law To Make It Gender-Neutral

  The centre is planning to amend the POCSO Act to provide justice to male child victims of sexual assault, the Women and Child Development Ministry said, days after an ordinance promulgated by President Ram Nath Kovind provided the death penalty for rape of girls under the age of 12.

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  Amid Nationwide Anger, Cabinet To Bring In Death Penalty For Child Rape

  Scrambling to assuage the nationwide outrage over sexual violence against young girls, the government is expected to clear an ordinance, or emergency executive order, to bring in death penalty for child rape. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who returns from a five-day foreign trip, has called for a cabinet meeting today to change the law.

• Anti-rape law: should age of consent be lowered? Govt torn, bill delayed

  The Union Cabinet will not review the new rape laws drafted by the government today, with ministries at odds over a recommendation on the lowering of the age of consent.

• Anti-rape law: Government to reduce age of consent from 18 to 16

  The Home Ministry has moved a note proposing tough new rape laws for the approval of the Cabinet, which is expected to take it up on Thursday. It has inputs from a parliamentary committee which had studied the new rape laws that the government cleared as an Ordinance last month. Once the Cabinet clears these proposals, they will be put before Parli...

• New anti-rape legislation: Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013

  President Pranab Mukherjee on February 3, 2013, gave his assent to the government's amended anti-rape laws that it introduced through an ordinance. The conglomerate of changes, which introduced the death penalty for extreme rape cases, has to be cleared by parliament within six months.

• Amid sharp criticism, government defends new anti-rape laws

  The government today countered a fusillade of criticism over the changes to anti-rape laws that it has introduced through an ordinance, signed yesterday by President Pranab Mukherjee. The conglomerate of changes, which introduced the death penalty for extreme rape cases, has to be cleared by parliament within six months.

• Despite objections from women's groups, President Pranab Mukherjee signs ordinance on sexual assault

  Despite objections by women's groups, President Pranab Mukherjee today signed the ordinance on sexual assault which was passed by the union cabinet on Friday. Women's rights groups had urged the President yesterday not to sign the ordinance, saying the cabinet had selectively accepted the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma commission.

• We have accepted 90% of Justice Verma panel's recommendations: Law Minister to NDTV

  Law Minister Ashwani Kumar has rejected the allegations made by several women's rights groups who say that the union government has selectively accepted the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma commission on rape laws. The minister insists that the government has in fact accepted 90 per cent of the suggestions made by the panel and has hence has...

• Govt ordinance on anti-rape laws has cherry-picked Justice Verma's recommendations: Kiran Bedi

  Former IPS officer and activist Kiran Bedi today welcomed the ordinance to amend the criminal law with focus on crime against women but said the government has cherry picked recommendations of Justice Verma Committee.

• Women's groups reject ordinance on rape laws, urge President not to sign it

  Women's rights groups today rejected the union government's ordinance on rape laws, saying it had selectively accepted the recommendations of the Justice JS Verma commission.

• Rape law ordinance: Govt rejects JS Verma panel's recommendations on marital rape, review of AFSPA

  The government has brought in an ordinance to introduce stricter penalties for crimes against women, including death in extreme cases, but ignored the Justice JS Verma commission's recommendations on criminalising marital rape and reviewing controversial sections of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).

• Read: Ordinance vs Verma commission recommendations

  The government has brought in an ordinance that introduces tougher jail terms for crimes against women, including the death penalty for extreme cases of sexual assault. The ordinance incorporates some but not all of the recommendations of the Justice Verma commission, a panel of three legal experts, appointed by the government in the wake of fierce...

• Cabinet clears anti-rape law ordinance, says death sentence for extreme cases

  The government has decided not to wait for Parliament to clear tough new anti-rape laws, the subject of national debate after the fatal gang-rape of a young student on a Delhi bus in December. Instead, the government has brought in an ordinance that introduces tougher jail terms for crimes against women, including the death penalty for extreme case...