Rape of minor, mob lynching may invite death, acts against nation to be punished with life: Bills

Rape of minor, mob lynching may invite death, acts against nation to be punished with life: Bills

New Delhi, Aug 11 (PTI) Anyone endangering sovereignty or integrity of India may get a maximum punishment of life imprisonment while those involved in mob lynching and rape of minor may be given the maximum punishment of death sentence.

These punishments are part of the three bills introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha on Friday.

The crime of murder will invite death sentence or life imprisonment while those involved in rape shall be punished with minimum 10 years of jail or imprisonment for life and gang rape will invite at least 20 years of imprisonment or imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life.