The andhra pradesh Legislative assembly last friday passed the andhra pradesh Disha Bill, 2019 (Andhra Pradesh Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2019). The bill provides for awarding death sentence for offenses of rape and gangrape and expediting trials of such cases to within 21 days.

 

The Act envisages the completion of investigation in seven days and trial in 14 working days, where there is adequate conclusive evidence, and reducing the total judgment time to 21 days from the existing four months. The ap Disha Act also prescribes life imprisonment for other sexual offenses against children and includes Section 354 F and 354 G in IPC.  

 
The Act has garnered nationwide attention in the heat of Disha's Rape and Murder. Only the other day, the delhi government wrote to Speaker tammineni sitaram to send a draft copy of the bill and now, Odisha government had also asked for the same. Tammineni today informed the assembly that Odisha government has written to him to furnish a copy of the bill which was passed recently in the Assembly. The Speaker appreciated the government of andhra pradesh and the leadership of YS jagan mohan reddy for bringing out a bill which is a model for the entire country. Meanwhile, the central government is yet to approve the bill passed by the ap Assembly.

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