Section 375 Ipc Amendment

The object of the new clause was to protect and safeguard the interest of the woman who accords consent for sexual intercourse without knowing the nature and consequences of the act by reason of unsoundness of mind or under the influence of stupefying or unwholesome substance or intercourse with a defective.

Section 375 ipc amendment. Penetration of penis into vagina urethra mouth or anus of any person or making any other person to do so with him or any other person. Rape a man is said to commit rape who except in the case hereinafter excepted has sexual intercourse with a woman under circumstances falling under any of the six following de scriptions first against her will. Amendment to section 375 of ipc.

The criminal law amendment act 2013 or the nirbhaya act was passed in parliament to amend section 375. Section 375 in the indian penal code 1 375. On section 375 376 ipc at glance before 2018 amendment one identifies the punishment for rape simpliciter under clause 1 and punishment for aggravated forms of rape under clause 2 of section 376.

Section 375 under the new section a man is said to commit rape if there is. Amendment in section 375 of ipc for sexual assaults making it gender neutral. The bill proposes to replace pronouns referencing men and women specifically with words such as any person or other person effectively making the offence of rape gender neutral.

Section 375 of ipc pertains to the criminal offense of raping defines rape as sexual intercourse with a woman against her will without her consent by coercion misrepresentation or fraud or at a. For sections 375 376 376a 376b 376cand 376d of the penal code the following sections shall be substituted namely rape. A man is said to commit rape if he a.

To remove ambiguity in the earlier law and provide for strict punishment in cases of rarest cases of sexual violence the legislation was expanded to define acts like penetration of penis into vagina urethra anus or mouth or any object or any part of body to any extent into the aforesaid woman body parts or making another person do so as. Amendment to section 375 of ipc. The criminal law amendment act 2013 no 13 of 2013.

But what we never see is the same pain and agony that men have to go through and they can t speak up against it because the indian law section 375 of the indian penal code stands rape is something that only a man can do to a woman. The former class of rape provides for the general offence of rape and prescribes lesser punishment which may extend to 7 years.