Under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, whoever commits…
Section 6 prescribes rigorous imprisonment for at least twenty years, which may extend to imprisonment for the remainder of the offender's natural life, together with…
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Under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, whoever commits Aggravated Penetrative Sexual Assault shall be punished with -
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Section 6 prescribes rigorous imprisonment for at least twenty years, which may extend to imprisonment for the remainder of the offender's natural life, together with liability to a fine; death is an alternative punishment. This is the provision substituted by the 2019 amendment. A version omitting the death alternative does not state the complete range, while ten or twelve years is not the amended minimum.
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