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Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018
March 16 , 2018
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- The Rajasthan assembly passed a bill (Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill) approving death penalty to those convicted of raping or gang-raping a girl up to 12 years of age.
- With this, Rajasthan has become the second state in the country after Madhya Pradesh to award death penalty and lifetime imprisonment to child rapists.
- The Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018 adds sections 376-AA and 376-DD to the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Earlier in 2017, Madhya Pradesh assembly had passed ‘The Penal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill-2017’, which awarded death to similar convicts.
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