The GoM, chaired by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, also recommended that sustained stalking be made a non-bailable offence while first offence of voyeurism could be a
bailable offence, sources said.
Repeat offences of voyeurisn, inappropriate touch, gesture and remarks have been recommended as non-bailable offences, they said.
The GoM also decided to retain the term ‘rape' in the bill and treat it gender-specific, instead of the proposal to make it gender-neutral.
