NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Lower House of parliament unanimously passed on Tuesday Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill, 2010 to prevent incidents of acid throwing at women besides to compensate them and rehabilitate them.
The bill recommended that whoever hurt by corrosive substance shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either description which shall not be less than 14 years and a minimum fine of Rs 1 million.
The bill, moved by MNA Marvi Memon, received enthusiastic response from the female parliamentarians across the party lines, who believed that the legislation was a landmark occasion to check acid throwing incidents, which mostly target the fair sex.
Though the government, initially showed some hesitation to pass the bill as Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Shah wanted to discuss it further, however, it finally allowed it to be tabled when some of its own parliamentarians pressed for its passage without any further delay.
Speaking on the occasion, Marvi dedicated the bill to all the victims of acid attacks, especially those women who have passed through agony and trauma.
Re: NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
Isn't it a crime already to do so? I would think so as far as physical abuse is concerned. The main problem is the enforcement part as that is where the meat is.
Re: NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
*why just acid attack on women? all abuses in any form or shape must be severely punished...the problem lies in the enforcement of the law. i think there must be a law that if an officer is found to be negligent in registering a case of abuse, he must be dealt with severe punishments. police and judiciary reform is more important than anything else which doesn't discriminate between the rich and the poor. *
Re: NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
i think the issue is that the penalty was probably not severe enough. this is life imprisonment, whatever it is for causing harm. there might also have been sharia law induced loopholes such as the family forgiving themselves etc.
Re: NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
*why just acid attack on women? all abuses in any form or shape must be severely punished...the problem lies in the enforcement of the law. i think there must be a law that if an officer is found to be negligent in registering a case of abuse, he must be dealt with severe punishments. police and judiciary reform is more important than anything else which doesn't discriminate between the rich and the poor. *
I believe Ch. Ifti remhatoo is working on the judiciary side. The government can't interfere there without coming off as using strong arm tactics, so that branch of the govt is invisible to them as far as anything that concerns them! :)
Re: NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
The people that do such act's deserve the death penalty, how can you throw acid on a woman that is so cowardly that the men that do it are not men and deserve most severe punishment!
Re: NA passes bill to prevent acid attacks against women
I believe Ch. Ifti remhatoo is working on the judiciary side. The government can't interfere there without coming off as using strong arm tactics, so that branch of the govt is invisible to them as far as anything that concerns them! :)
true...but, public must demand and make it an election issue i suppose :)
good work!