The punishment under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 is higher…

Section 6 provides at least twenty years' rigorous imprisonment, extendable to imprisonment for the rest of natural life, or death. That is higher than section 4 (at least ten years, or twenty for a child below sixteen, up to life), section 8 (three to five years) and section 10 (five to seven years).