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  J&K Guv promulgates ordinance for death penalty to child rapists

  India | May 17, 2018 15:46 IST

  Under the new law, committing rape on a woman under sixteen years of age has been made punishable with rigorous imprisonment for twenty years and may extend to a life sentence, which shall mean the remainder of that person’s natural life. 

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  President rejects mercy plea of child rapist

  India | August 06, 2014 18:51 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has rejected the mercy petition of Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik who raped and killed a three-year-old girl in Maharashtra's Amrawati district on March 2, 2007.With this, Mukherjee has signed 22 death