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Flak for anti-rape order in Manipur
The Telegraph | Imphal, Feb. 3
Opposition parties in Manipur have reacted sharply to the UPA government’s anti-rape ordinance for not including all of Justice J.S. Verma committee’s recommendations. The ordinance, which has provisions for capital punishment for rape and gang rape leading to death or vegetative state of the victim, was sent to President Pranab Mukherjee for his assent on Friday.
The committee had recommended the removal of sanction required for prosecuting army personnel accused of crimes against women under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, and they be tried under ordinary criminal law.
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