Pakistan – Acid Control & Acid Crime Prevention Bill Approved
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: July 22, 2005
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PAKISTAN – NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVES
ACID CONTROL & ACID CRIME
PREVENTION LEGISLATION
May 10, 2011
QUETTA: The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved
the Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill 2010.
The bill was introduced last year by MNAs Marvi Memon, Begum Shahnaz Sheikh
and Advocate Anusha Rehman in a bid to prevent growing incidents of violence
against women.
Offenders will now be punished with life or up to 40 years imprisonment and
will have to pay rupees one million to the victim.
Earlier, the
National Assembly Standing Committee on Women Development had approved the bill
which further amended the Pakistan Penal Code 1860.
The amendment in Section 336-B states, “Whoever causes hurt by corrosive
substance shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of
either description which shall not be less than fourteen years and a
minimum fine of one million rupees.”
The new insertion in Section 336-A states, “Whosoever with intention or
knowingly causes or attempts to cause hurt by means of a corrosive
substance or any substance which is deleterious to human body when it is
swallowed, inhaled, come in contact or received into human body or otherwise
shall be said to cause hurt by corrosive substance.”
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