Question

DIRECTIONS: (Qs. 92-97)Given below/ a statement of principle followed by a failual situation. Apply the principle to the faile given below and dselect the most appropriate answer
Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 does not provide that:

• A. A rape convict can be sentenced to a term not less than 20 years
• B. Death sentence to repeat offenders
• C. Stalking and voyeurism are bailable offences
• D. Acid attack convicts can get a 10 year jail term.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Death sentence to repeat offenders

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, an Indian legislation passed by the Parliament which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, 1872 and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences. Its features include:

• A minimum jail term of 20 years which may go up to life in prison or death sentence, for the rape of a girl under 12 years. While perpetrators involved in the gangrape of a girl below 12 years of age will get life imprisonment or death.
  
• If somebody throws acid and causes permanent or partial damage or deformity will be punished with imprisionment of minimum less than 10 years, which
  
• Stalking and voyeurism under the newly added sections 354D and 354C respectively has been made a bailable offence. Voyeurism be punished with upto seven years in jail; stalking or attempts to contact a person repeatedly through any means by up to three years.