T.N. moves Bills on strict punishment for sexual offences against women, children
The HinduTamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday 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 the 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. 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.
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