 bill no xxxi of 2006 the indian penal code (amendment) bill, 2006 a billfurther to amend the indian penal code, 1860be it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the indian penal code (amendment) act, 2006short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force with immediate effect"provided that if death is caused to a girl or a woman,  the accused committing such homicide shall be punished with imprisonment for whole life and shall also be liable for fine which may extend to two lakh rupees"3 in sub-section (2) of section 304b of the penal code, for the words "seven years"the words "ten years" shall be substituted4 in section 312 of the penal code, before the explanation the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:—amendment of section 304b amendment of section 3125"provided that if the miscarriage is of a female foetus caused after a sex determination test, the person or the pregnant woman, as the case may be, causing miscarriage of such female foetus shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment which shall not be less than seven years but may extend to imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees"10amendment of section 3135  in section 313 of the penal code, the following proviso shall be added, namely:—"(2) provided if a miscarriage of a female foetus is caused after pre-natal sex determination test, the accused shall be punished with imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to two lakh rupees156 in section 314 of the penal code,—amendment of section 314(i) for the words "imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine" the words "rigorous imprisonment which shall not be less than ten years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to two lakh rupees" shall be substituted20(ii) before the explanation the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:—"provided that if the miscarriage is caused after conducting a pre-natal sex determination test of the foetus confirming it to be a female foetus, the person causing the miscarriage shall be punished with regorous imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to two lakh rupees"25amendment of section 3157 section 315 of the penal code shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof and after the sub-section (1) as so re-numbered the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—30"(2) if the offence referred to in sub-section (1) is committed after conducting a pre natal sex determination test confirming a female foetus, the person committing such an offence shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to two lakh rupeesamendment of section 3168 section 316 of the penal code shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof and after the sub-section (1) as so re-numbered the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—35"(2) if the offence referred to in sub-section (1) is committed after conducting a sexdetermination test confirming that the quick unborn child is female child, the person doing such as act shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees"amendment of section 317409 section 317 of the penal code shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof andafter the sub-section (1) as so re-numbered the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—"(2) if the child so exposed or abandoned is a girl child, the person doing so shall bepunished with rigorous imprisonment for term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees"45amendment of section 31810 section 318 of the penal code shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof andafter the sub-section (1) as so re-numbered the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—50"(2) if the child whose dead body is so disposed of is of a girl child the person committingsuch offence shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees"amendment of section 37611 in section 376 of the penal code, after sub-section (2), the following sub-sections shall be inserted, namely:—"(3) notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) whoever commits rape on a woman when she is under ten years of age shall be punished withdeath5(4) whoever commits incestuous rape on a woman shall be punished with death" statement of objects and reasonsin our country, on the one hand the progress and prosperity is hampered by the booming population and on the other dwindling sex ratio, that is of lesser female population, is also a cause of concern the latest census of 2001 has revealed a disturbing trend of fast declining sex ratio of below 900 females per thousand males in many of the states including haryana, punjab, himachal pradesh, gujarat and others this is happening mainly due to premature and induced abortions of female foetus after sex determination tests which are being carried out on a very large scale in the country though sex determination is illegal, much of it is attributable to male preference in the families although abortions for containing family size is legal, but abortions in very large numbers are carried out to destroy female foetus after illegal pre natal sex determination tests only to avert birth of female child this alarming situation has started showing ugly  trends in some states where people are purchasing their brides from other states this trend may result in social chaos in the near future so it has to be effectively curbed so as to correct the declining sex ratio by providing deterrent provisions in the indian penal codesimilarly, there has been unprecedented increase in the rape cases committed on women and girls which is the worst kind of criminal offence against women and humanity it becomes more heinous once it is committed on minor girls such beasts do not deserve any leniency and must be hanged to death similarly, our heads bow in shame when we come across incestuous rapes committed on women and girls by none other than the trusted relatives what can be more shameful than a father committing rape of his own daughter or a brother raping his sister such relatives must not be spared and must be hanged to death this will have a deterrent effect on the societyhence this billprema cariappa annexure extracts from the indian penal code, 1860    304b dowry death—(1) where the death of woman is caused by any burns or bodily injury or occurs otherwise than under normal circusmtances within seven years of  her marriage and it is shown that soon before her death she was subjected to cruelty or harassment by her husband or any relative of her husband for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry, such death shall be called "dowry death", and such husband or relative shall be deemed to have caused her deathexplanation—for the purposes of this sub-section, "dowry" shall have the same meaning as in section 2 of the dowry prohibition act, 1961 (28 of 1961)(2) whoever commits dowry death shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven years but which may extend to imrprisonment for life314 death caused by act done with intent to cause miscarriage—whoever, with intent to cause the miscarriage of a woman with child, does any act which causes the death of such women, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine, if act done without woman's consent—and if the act is done without the consent of the woman, shall be punished either with imprisonment for life, or with the punishment above mentionedexplanation—it is not essential to this offence that the offender should know that the act is likely to cause death)     rajya  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the indian penal code 1860————(shrimati prema cariappa, mp)mgipmrnd—6592rs(s3)—21-03-2006