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Protection of Women Against Violence Bill, 2015
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Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018
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Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
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Anti-Human Trafficking Bill, 2018
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Detailed explanation-1: -Explained: Maharashtra’s Shakti Act that approved death penalty for rape | Explained News,The Indian Express.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Shakti Bill amends the IPC, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) in their application to Maharashtra. It amends these laws for offences committed against women and children to curb sexual crimes committed against them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Section 354(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides a method to execute the death penalty, i.e., “Hanging by the neck until dead.” Recently, the convicts of the Nirbhaya case were hanged until death in Tihar Jail.
Detailed explanation-4: -Death sentence is given to a person in consideration of any heinous offence committed by the person. In India, capital punishment is awarded for murder, gang robbery with murder, abetting the suicide of a child or insane person, waging war against the government, and abetting mutiny by a member of the armed forces.