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UP: 4 minors sexually assaulted in separate incidents
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 22 (ANI): Hours after the Centre gave its nod to an ordinance to amend the existing Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act, allowing courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping minors, four incidents of sexual assaults were reported
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POCSO Act amendment gets thumbs up from B-town
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Apr 22 (ANI): The Centre has given its nod to an ordinance to amend the existing Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act, allowing courts to award death penalty to those convicted of raping minors, and Bollywood is all praise for it.
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DCW chief to end fast after POCSO amendment
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 21 (ANI): Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Chairperson Swati Maliwal on Saturday announced that she would break her indefinite fast tomorrow after the Union cabinet approved an ordinance to award death sentence to rapists of children below 12 years of age.
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Mehbooba welcomes death penalty for rapists
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Apr. 21 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday welcomed the decision of the Union cabinet to award death sentence to the rapists of children below the age of 12.
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NCW hail death penalty in child rapes
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 21 (ANI): Women activists across the country have praised the ordinance approved by the Union cabinet to award death sentence to the rapists of children below the age of 12.
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Cabinet facilitates strengthening of POCSO Act
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 21 (ANI): In the wake of an increase in incidents of rape of minors, the Union Cabinet on Saturday approved a number of measures to strengthen the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
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BJP leader washes hands off water scarcity in MP
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Sagar (Madhya Pradesh) [India] Apr. 21 (ANI): Amid the rampant water crisis in various pockets of Madhya Pradesh, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Sagar opined that waiting for a few more months for the problem to be resolved was "no big deal."
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Death penalty for rapists of children below 12 years
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 21 (ANI): The Centre on Saturday approved the ordinance to award death sentence to the rapists of children below the age of 12.
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One held in Surat rape case
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Ahmadabad (Gujarat) [India], Apr 21 (ANI): One person was arrested on Saturday, in connection with the rape and murder of a minor girl in Surat.
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Amendment in POCSO Act will not give 'salvage to victims': DMK
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 21 (ANI): Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Saturday said that the Center's decision to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act will not give any 'salvage to the victims'.
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Unnao rape case: BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar's CBI remand extended
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Unnao (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Apr. 20 (ANI): The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) court in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao district has extended the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) remand of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for seven more days (April
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Centre to amend POCSO Act to ensure death penalty in child rape till 12-ye
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 20 (ANI): The Central Government, in a letter, submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday, said that it has started the process to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO)Act to introduce death penalty for rape of minors till 12 year of age.
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