UPA seeks consensus on anti-rape bill
18 March 2013 7:04 AM IST
A day before an all-party meet to debate the controversial anti-rape bill, the UPA government Sunday said it would evolve a consensus on the issue.
The BJP and the SP have expressed reservations over the legislation. ‘We hope there will be a consensus (on the issue) at the all-party meet,’ a Congress minister said. The SP is opposed to the bill, particularly the clause on lowering the age for consensual sex from 18 to 16 years. ‘We will oppose the bill at the all-party meeting. If it is brought for voting in parliament, the SP will vote against it,’ party leader Ram Gopal Yadav had said Friday.
BJP leader Najma Heptulla had said: ‘If a person below 18 is a juvenile and is given relaxed punishments because he is not mature enough to know the consequences of what he is doing, how is a child of 16 mature enough to consent to sexual activity?’
WILL OPPOSE MOVE TO LOWER AGE OF CONSENT FOR SEX: RSS
Slamming the government move to lower the age for consensual sex, RSS said it was socially unacceptable and it would oppose the measure. ‘The age for marriage for a girl is 18 but government wants to give legal consent for sexual relations before marriage by lowering the age to 16. It is not acceptable and RSS will oppose it,’ said RSS leader Bhaiya Joshi.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 proposes, to lower the age of consent for sex from 18 to 16 years. Briefing the media upon the conclusion of an apex body meeting of the organisation called Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha, Joshi said that a resolution on the issue of persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh had been passed during the conference. (IANS)
The BJP and the SP have expressed reservations over the legislation. ‘We hope there will be a consensus (on the issue) at the all-party meet,’ a Congress minister said. The SP is opposed to the bill, particularly the clause on lowering the age for consensual sex from 18 to 16 years. ‘We will oppose the bill at the all-party meeting. If it is brought for voting in parliament, the SP will vote against it,’ party leader Ram Gopal Yadav had said Friday.
BJP leader Najma Heptulla had said: ‘If a person below 18 is a juvenile and is given relaxed punishments because he is not mature enough to know the consequences of what he is doing, how is a child of 16 mature enough to consent to sexual activity?’
WILL OPPOSE MOVE TO LOWER AGE OF CONSENT FOR SEX: RSS
Slamming the government move to lower the age for consensual sex, RSS said it was socially unacceptable and it would oppose the measure. ‘The age for marriage for a girl is 18 but government wants to give legal consent for sexual relations before marriage by lowering the age to 16. It is not acceptable and RSS will oppose it,’ said RSS leader Bhaiya Joshi.
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2013 proposes, to lower the age of consent for sex from 18 to 16 years. Briefing the media upon the conclusion of an apex body meeting of the organisation called Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha, Joshi said that a resolution on the issue of persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh had been passed during the conference. (IANS)
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