1) Community Service As Form Of Punishment
Community service has been introduced as a form of punishment under Section 4, although it has not been defined what community service entails. For offences such as attempting suicide to compel or restrain the exercise of lawful power, defamation, misconduct in public by a drunken person, and failure to appear at the specified place and time as required by a proclamation published under sub-section (1) of section 84 of the BNS, 2023, community service can be awarded in addition to the prescribed punishment.
2) Offences Against Woman and Child Of Sexual Offences- The new BNS adds Chapter V naming “Of Offences Against Woman and Child Of Sexual Offences”. All the offences relating to woman and child have been placed under one chapter in the beginning of the Code, which was earlier spread under various chapters and parts.
3) Marital Rape With Minor Wife Is Offence
As per exception of Rape which is Section 63 of BNS, sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, where the wife is not under eighteen years of age, would not be rape. However, under IPC, the age of wife to not to constitute rape was “fifteen years”.
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