Amended Code of Criminal Procedure 1973, Indian Evidence Act 1872 & Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012 notified in State
TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: Throwing of acid on any person is now punishable with imprisonment of not less than ten years and may extend to life imprisonment, and fine, which would include paying for the medical expenses of the treatment of the victim.
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 amended by Parliament and notified in the State directs that whoever causes permanent or partial damage or deformity to, or burns or maims or disfigures or disables, any part or parts of the body of a person or causes grievous hurt by throwing acid on or by administering acid to that person, or by using any other means with the intention of causing or with the knowledge that he is likely to cause such injury or hurt will be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life, and with fine. The fine has to meet the medical expenses of the treatment of the victim.
The amendments also say that those throwing or attempting to throw acid on any person or attempts to administer acid to any person, or attempts to use any other means, with the intention of causing permanent or partial damage or deformity or burns or maiming or disfigurement or disability or grievous hurt to that person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Another amendment is that any public servant knowingly disobeys any direction of the law which prohibits him from requiring the attendance at any place of any person for the purpose of investigation into an offence or any other matter, or knowingly disobeys, to the prejudice of any person, any other direction of the law regulating the manner in which he shall conduct such investigation, or fails to record any information given to him under certain sections shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to two years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Also the person in charge of a hospital, public or private, whether run by the Central Government, the State Government, local bodies or any other person, contravenes the provisions of section 357C of theCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine or with both.”
Any assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe will be punished with imprisonment of not less than three years but which may extend to seven years, and a fine. Voyeurism will also be punished with punishment of not less than one year, which may extend to three years, and fine, and for a second or subsequent conviction, imprisonment of not be less than three years, but which may extend to seven years, and a fine.
If a police officer, commits rape within the limits of the police station or in the premises of any station house or on a woman in such police officer’s custody or in the custody of a police officer subordinate to such police officer; or being a public servant, commits rape on a woman in such public servant’s custody or being a member of the armed forces deployed in an area by the Central or a State Government commits rape in such area; or being on the management or on the staff of a jail, remand home or other place of custody established by or under any law for the time being in force or of a women’s or children’s institution, commits rape on any inmate of such jail, remand home, place or institution; on the management or on the staff of a hospital will be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life.
