The Union Cabinet approved ordinance to award death penalty
to those convicted of raping children up to 12 years of age. The officials said
that there will also be no provision for anticipatory bail for a person accused
of rape or gang rape of a girl under 16 years. In case of rape of a girl under
16 years, minimum punishment has been increased from 10 years to 20 years,
which is extendable to life imprisonment. In case of gang-rape of a girl below
12 years, punishment will be life imprisonment or death sentence.
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