Rajasthan plans law for capital punishment to child rapists

NewsBharati    20-Feb-2018
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Jaipur, Feb 20: Follwing the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan too, is planning to introduce a legislation seeking death penalty for those convicted of raping the minors in the state. Madhya Pradesh has already enacted such a legislation last year in December.
According to sources, the Rajasthan government is likely to table a bill in the state assembly in this reagard. State Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said that the state government is planning to bring a legislation on lines of Madhya Pradesh government law seeking capital punishment for those convicted of raping minors.

“We are working on bringing a law similar to that has been made in Madhya Pradesh which awards death for the rape of children aged 12 or below. It will be tabled in the assembly when it is ready,” he said.

The Madhya Pradesh Assembly on December 4, 2017, unanimously passed “The Penal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill-2017” to award death sentence to those found guilty of raping girls aged 12 or below.

As per the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) 2016 report, cases of crime against children have become rampant in Rajasthan in the recent past.

The BJP-ruled state recorded 4,034 such cases in 2016, which is 3.8 percent of the crimes against children (98,344) registered across the country. In 2015, the state had registered 3,689 cases of crime against children.

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