UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND ENERGY STUDIES

SCHOOL OF LAW
B.COM LLB(Hons.), Taxation Law (B-1)

SESSION: AUGUST-DECEMBER
SEMESTER – 3
INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
UNDER SUPERVISION OF Mr. GAUTAM GUPTA
Topic: CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE CRIMINAL CODE (AMENDEMT)
ACT,2013

 Name- AARADHYA NAGYAN

 Sap Id.- 500060571
 Roll No.- 01
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AIM AND OBJECTIVE

 The key aim of this article is to review this Act in the light of women’s safety in public
spaces.
 To study the concept of amendment under article 354 of Indian Penal Code.
 To study the Indian major criminal law and amendments made under this law.
 To study the de-jure and de-facto rights.

RESEARCH PROBLEM
 Under the Ordinance, penalties for certain offences are inconsistent. For instance,
minimum punishment for gang assault by private persons is 20 years, and for gang
assault by a police officer is 10 years.
 Age of consent has been increased from 16-18 years. There is a divergent view among
various commissions on the age of consent.
 Marital sexual assault over a woman is not an offence. This is at variance with the
recommendation at certain commissions.

HYPOTHESIS
 The horrific gang-rape and the subsequent murder of Nirbyaya (fearless) in December
2012, impelled the Government of India to pass the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act
2013.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
 Will the Act enhance women’s safety?
 What needs to be done?

SCOPE AND LIMITATION

 It was introduced to combat rise of rapes committed on minors specifically.
 There must be commission of sexual intercourse between the man and the woman.
 To make the strict laws so that the problems do not rise in large scale.
 Amendment in criminal law is necessary to reduce these criminalities, crime in society
and make the society peaceful.
 Not only the legal mechanism but also the society needs to change its views towards the
victims of rape and other sexual crimes.

METHODOLOGY
 I have used doctrinal method in my project as I had used book, journals, articles for the
content of my project and I found this method to be very useful for my research. This
method talks about the work which is done with the help of book knowledge and with the
reference of many online sites.
 The advantage of this method is to verify the hypothesis by a firsthand study of
authoritative source. This method is to use in present study because this method contains
a lot of information which helps the researcher in gaining knowledge.

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