Islamabad: Pakistan has removed clauses from criminal law bills that provide “chemical castration” as a punishment for ordinary rapists.
Last year, Pakistani President Arif Alvi has approved the anti-rape regulation (investigation and trial), 2020 and criminal law (amendment), to provide a mechanism to curb sexual harassment crimes against women, transgender and children.
Both procedures have introduced Harshher’s punishment for sex violators, including chemical castration.
On Wednesday, Imran Khan’s coalition government prime minister has rushed through almost three dozen laws in a combined parliamentary session, including anti-rape criminal law, from which the penalty for chemical castration was removed.
Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice, Maleeha Bokhari, revealed on Friday that the clause was issued because of the objections submitted by the Board of Islamic Ideology (CII), the Pakistani Constitutional Agency responsible for legal advice to the Government and Parliament.
Article 227 The Pakistani Constitution guarantees that all laws in the country must be in accordance with Sharia and the Koran.
“The negligence of the chemical castraction clause was carried out after a detailed deliberation by the Government Committee in the light of CII’s objections under the guidance of the Minister of Law.
We cannot provide any law that oppose these values ​​(Islam),” Bokhari said.
Regarding the anti-rape bill, Bokhari said the law had previously had a shortage that hinders the provision of justice for victims, therefore the new law has been introduced to ensure rapid justice dispensation.
He explained that cell anti-rape crisis will be established in every district hospital for rapid medical cases.
Chemical Kiterma punishment for the rapist introduced in last year’s Presidential Regulation amid increasing national protests and a specific case of a mother of two driving along the big Lahore-Sialkot highway which was dragged out of his car and was raped by two men.
At the point of the weapon in front of his children.
The new anti-rape law, meanwhile, has declared rape and rape as a non-compound violation, where there is no compromise or permitted settlement between the parties and the court must provide a final decision.