Focus on making U.P. safer for women
By: admin | Sept. 27, 2022, 5:54 p.m.
In what may be called Yogi 2.0 government’s most significant step toward the safety of women in the first six months of its tenure, the government on Friday passed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Bill, 2022 to end the provision of anticipatory bail in cases of heinous crime against women and children. The bill was tabled in the UP Vidhan Sabha on Thursday, a historic day as the UP legislature dedicated it to women legislators and women’s issues.
With the amendment, the accused will not get anticipatory bail in cases of rape, cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and a few more offenses.
Parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna said that the amendment had been brought in pursuance of a zero-tolerance policy toward crimes against women and children and to ensure prompt collection of biological evidence in sexual offenses, to prevent such biological evidence from being annihilated, to minimize the possibility of destruction of relevant evidence and to restrain the accused from causing fear or coercion to the victims/ witnesses.
