T.N. moves Bills on strict punishment for sexual offences against women, children
The Hindu
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday (January 10, 2025) moved two Bills in the Legislative Assembly that sought to increase the quantum of punishment for sexual offences against women and children and to cover the offences committed against them through digital and electronic means.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday (January 10, 2025) moved two Bills in the Legislative Assembly that sought to increase the quantum of punishment for sexual offences against women and children and to cover the offences committed against them through digital and electronic means.
The State government firmly believed that enhancing the quantum of punishments for the offences committed against women and children in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and also amending certain provisions relating to bail in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, by prescribing more stringent provisions for such offences will certainly deter such deplorable acts, the Bill said.
The State government has decided to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Central Act 48 of 2023), suitably, it said.
Another Bill sought to amend the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act, 1998, so as to deal with harassment of women through digital and electronic means. “There is an urgent need to amend the said Act in order to bring different types of harassment inflicted to women including those through digital and electronic means also within the ambit of the said Act,” the Bill said.
There was also an urgent need to enhance the punishments for harassment of women so that such deplorable acts will be curtailed and the perpetrators will face severe punishment for their crimes, it said. It sought to enlarge the scope of the said Principal Act and to prescribe stringent penalties against the offenders who harass women.
Both the Bills are to be taken for consideration in the ongoing Assembly sitting.
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