BENGAL anti-rape bill returned, centre says it's at odds with BNS: TMC
Kolkata, July 26 -- The Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024, passed by the state legislative assembly in September last year seeking the death penalty and other stringent punishments for rape convicts, has been returned by the Centre after review, the Trinamool Congress said on Friday.
People aware of the details said that while returning the bill on Thursday, the Centre wrote in its note that punishments proposed for some of the crimes mentioned in the document clashed with existing provisions of the BNS.P11...
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