Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly today passed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Bill 2022 which bars granting of anticipatory bail to rape accused.
Code of Criminal Procedure (UP Amendment) Bill 2022: The bill that was tabled by UP Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna has a provision to not grant anticipatory bail to those accused of offences under the POCSO Act and durachaar (misconduct) with women.
Two Dalit sisters, 17 and 15, were raped, murdered and then hung from a tree in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur by five men, the police said today, as a village seethed with rage at the horrific crime and what they called "insensitive handling" by cops.