Does the new amendment to criminal law accord protection to women? - an analysis
International Journal of Development Research
Does the new amendment to criminal law accord protection to women? - an analysis
Received 23rd May, 2017; Received in revised form 17th June, 2017; Accepted 22nd July, 2017; Published online 30th August, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Dr. Chandrika. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 is an recently Indian legislation passed by the parliament which provides for amendment of Indian Penal Code, Indian Evidence Act, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on laws related to sexual offences in light of the protests after Delhi gang rape case. This new Act has expressly recognized certain acts as offences which were dealt under related laws. These new offences like, acid attack, sexual harassment, voyeurism, stalking have been incorporated into the Indian Penal Code. The most important change that has been made is the change in definition of rape under IPC. Certain changes has been introduced in the Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Act, like the process of recording the statement of the victim has been made more victim friendly and easy. The author in this article wishes to analysis the effect of recent criminal law on protection of women.
