ANNEXURE
EXTRACTS FROM THE PROTECTION OF C HILDREN FROM
S EXUAL OFFENCES ACT, 2012
(32 OF 2012)
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Punishment
for penetrative
sexual assault.
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4. Whoever commits penetrative sexual assault shall be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than seven years
but which may extend to imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.
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B.—AGGRAVATED PENETRATIVE SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PUNISHMENT
THEREFOR
Aggravated
penetrative
sexual assault.
5. (a) Whoever, being a police officer, commits penetrative sexual assault on a
child—
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(j) whoever commits penetrative sexual assault on a child, which—
(i) physically incapacitates the child or causes the child to become
mentally ill as defined under clause (b) of section 2 of the Mental Health
Act, 1987 or causes impairment of any kind so as to render the child unable
to perform regular tasks, temporarily or permanently; or
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(iii) inflicts the child with Human Immunodeficiency Virus or any
other life threatening disease or Infection which may either temporarily or
permanently impair the child by rendering him physically incapacitated, or
mentally ill to perform regular tasks; or
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(s) whoever commits penetrative sexual assault on a child in the course of
communal or sectarian violence; or
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Punishment
for aggravated
penetrative
sexual assault.
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6. Whoever, commits aggravated penetrative sexual assault, shall be punished
with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years but which
may extend to imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine.
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D.—AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PUNISHMENT THEREFOR
Aggravated
sexual assault.
9. (a) Whoever, being a police officer, commits sexual assault on a child—
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(d) whoever being on the management or on the staff of a jail, or remand
home or protection home or observation home, or other place of custody or care
and protection established by or under any law for the time being in force commits
sexual assault on a child being inmate of such jail or remand home or protection
home or observation home or other place of custody or care and protection; or
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14 of 1987.