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An amendment to the Prevention of Abuse of Women and Children Act has been enacted in the form of an ordinance providing for the death penalty which increases the maximum penalty for rape.
After the signature of the president yesterday, the Department of Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs of the Ministry of Law issued the ‘Amended Ordinance (Amendment) Suppression of Abuse of Women and Children, 2020’.
The ordinance states: “Additional amendments to the Violence Against Women and Children Prevention Act 2000 are appropriate and necessary; And since Parliament is not in session and the President has known that the situation exists for immediate action .
The President issued and issued the ordinance with the powers conferred by Article 93 (1) of the Constitution. This ordinance will be called the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Children (Amendment) Ordinance 2020.
The ordinance has been amended to amend section 7 of section 6 of Law No. 6, section 9, subsection (1), (4), subsection (1) of section 19, section 20 and section 32 of the Law of Prevention of Abuse of Women and Children of 2000.
As the session of Parliament was not in progress, it was signed into law by ordinance. According to the rules, when the session of Parliament begins, it will be passed in the form of law.
The amended law establishes that the words ‘death penalty or life imprisonment’ will be replaced by the words ‘life imprisonment’ in the ordinance issued under the amendment of Section 9 of Act No. 6 of 2000.
The previous law spoke of ‘medical examination of the victim of a crime’. The ordinance will replace the words “medical examination of a person accused of a crime and a victim of a crime.” There was also talk of a “crime victim”. The terms “use of cutting-edge technology by persons accused of crimes and victims of crimes” will be replaced in the ordinance.
The ordinance deals with the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) test of the accused and the victim of the crime, if the offender and the victim of the crime under this Act have the consent of the person in addition to the medical examination according to section 32, deoxyribonucleic acid (DOX), 2014 (Act No. 10 of 2014) in accordance with the provisions of the DNA test.
In a briefing at the secretariat after Monday’s cabinet meeting, Cabinet Secretary Khandaker Anwarul Islam said that in light of the recent incidents, a proposal was put forward by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to crack down on the crimes against women and children. The cabinet secretary said the issues had been discussed in detail in cabinet, adding that everyone, including the prime minister, had agreed on the issue and the cabinet later decided that the proposal was acceptable and should be raised immediately. . Since Parliament is not working, it will be enacted by ordinance. Final approval was given at the discretion of the Legislative Department.
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