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In 2019, the POCSO Act was amended and made more stringent, the amendment raised minimum punishment for penetrative assault from 7 to 10 years and 20 years if the victim was below 16 years in age, with a maximum punishment of life imprisonment with a provision for the death penalty for aggravated penetrative assault. [17] [18] [19]
In 2019, an amendment to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2013 (POCSO) sought to cover all children under this law. [125] Debate in India
One of her first legislative initiatives as the Minister for WCD was the Amendment to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2019, which aims to make punishment more stringent and even include death penalty for offenders involved in sexual crimes against minors. [94]
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan will support companies that plan to relocate to the United States, including helping them find partners, the economy ministry said on Monday, outlining assistance it will ...
Amendment Two, in short, would widen already-growing divides in the state of Kentucky, and hinder education’s role in fostering a healthy, well-integrated populace who shares a common good. In ...
OpEd: If Amendment 2 passes in November, legislators could direct hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will flow into questionable religious schools operated in church basements across Kentucky.
From 1789 through January 3, 2019, approximately 11,770 measures have been proposed to amend the United States Constitution. [1] Collectively, members of the House and Senate typically propose around 200 amendments during each two-year term of Congress. [2] Most, however, never get out of the Congressional committees in which they were proposed ...
The first part of the act makes it an offence to "meet a child following certain preliminary contact". [2] It is an offense if a person ("A") has met or communicated with the child ("B") previously, "intends to engage in unlawful sexual activity involving B or in the presence of B", the child is under 16 years of age, and person A "does not ...