PML-N MPA tables Acid and Burn Crime Bill 2019 in Punjab Assembly
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member of Punjab Assembly Hina Pervez Butt tabled the Acid and Burn Crime Bill 2019 in the House.
The bill seeks capital punishment or life imprisonment for those involved in such heinous crime. It also suggests that a person facilitating such attacks should also get a minimum three-year prison term.
The suspects involved in acid attacks should be remanded into custody for 14 days and investigations be completed in 60-day period, the PML-N’s bill recommends.
It further ought that a police officer of inspector rank should investigate such cases, while the ones harassing any witnesses should also be sentenced to two years and fined.
While tabling the bill, Hina Pervez Butt highlighted the rising number of acid attack in the country, with women being the target in most of the cases.
She termed adopting the bill a need of the hour.
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