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NCW assessing IPC provisions

By Our Staff Correspondent

NEW DELHI Nov. 12. The National Commission for Women (NCW) is assessing gender-related laws in the Indian Penal Code.

Talking to reporters here today, the NCW chairperson, Poornima Advani, said that the laws relating to women and children have been amended only twice — once in 1984 and then in 1986 following the infamous Mathura rape case. Other laws had been changed from time to time. The Commission is advocating a separate law for sexual abuse of children.

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