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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]
Hawley asked Patel if he’d “find out who was involved in this gross abuse of Americans’ First Amendment rights,” discipline or fire them “consistent with department policy or law ...
The killer, who served in the military from 2019 for about three years, had shot himself in the chest with the crossbow. Mr Hunt and his other daughter Amy issued a statement after the attack ...
President Donald Trump's bid to cut off birthright citizenship is a "flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage ...
The Amendment Ordinance 2014 (No 1 of 2014) was signed by the president on 4 March 2014 and came into force immediately. Since it was an ordinance, and was not ratified by (the next) parliament within six months, it lapsed. It was then referred back to the cabinet. The Amendment Act 2015 (No 1 of 2016) was passed to replace the ordinance of 2014.
The Senate has voted only on cloture motions with regard to the proposed amendment, the last of which was on June 7, 2006, when the motion failed 49 to 48, falling short of the 60 votes required to allow the Senate to proceed to consideration of the proposal and the 67 votes required to send the proposed amendment to the states for ratification.