SIGNIFICANT PROVISIONS

CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 2018

Minimum punishment for rape increased to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment, extendable to life

Minimum punishment for rape of a girl under 16 increased to 20 years, extendable to imprisonment for rest of life

Punishment for rape of a girl under 12 is minimum 20 years’ imprisonment, or imprisonment for rest of life, or death

■ Investigations have to be completed in 2 months. Trials have to be completed in 2 months and appeals in 6 months

■ NCRB to maintain a national database of sex offenders

■ No provision for anticipatory bail in the case of rape of a girl under 16 years of age

FUGITIVE ECONOMIC OFFENDERS ORDINANCE, 2018

Provision for an application before a special court for declaration of an individual as a

fugitive economic offender Attachment of the property

of a fugitive economic offender and proceeds of crime

■ Issuing of a notice by the special court to the individual alleged to be a fugitive economic offender

Confiscation of property of an individual declared as a fugitive economic offender or even the proceeds of crime

■ Disentitlement of the fugitive economic offender from defending any civil claim

■ Appointment of an administrator to manage and dispose of the confiscated property