 bill no  xxiii  of 2006 the prevention of atrocities on women and children bill, 2006 a billto prevent the commission of offences of atrocities against the women and children in the country, to provide for special courts for the trial of such offences and for the relief and rehabilitation of the victims of such offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental theretobe it enacted by parliament in the fifty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the prevention of atrocities on women and children act,2006short title, extent and commencement(2) it extends to the whole of india5(3) it shall come into force at oncedefinitions2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—(a) "appropriate government" means in the case of state, the government of that state and for all other cases the central government(b) "atrocity" means an offence punishable under section 3;102 of 1973(c) "code" means the code of criminal procedure, 1973;(d) "special court" means a court of session specified as a special court insection 7;45 of 1860(e) words and expressions used but not defined in this act and defined in the code or the indian penal code shall have the meanings assigned to them respectively in the code, or as the case may be, in the indian penal code3  (1) whoever,—punishments for offences of atrocities5(i) assaults or uses force against any women with intent to dishonour or outrageher modesty;(ii) forcibly removes clothes from the person of a woman or parades her naked orwith painted face or body or commits any similar act which is derogatory to human dignity;10(iii) compels or entices a woman or child to do 'begar' or other similar forms offorced or bonded labour;(iv) being in a position to dominate the will of a woman and uses that position toharass or exploit her sexually to which she would not have otherwise agreed;(v) intentionally insults or intimidates with intent to humiliate a woman or child inany place within public view;15(vi) institutes false, malicious or vexatious suit or criminal or other legalproceedings against a woman or child;(vii) takes pictures or video of a women without her consent or knowledge byviolating her privacy;20(viii) forces or compels any women into prostitution; (ix) forces or compels any child to work in any establishment whether hazardousor not; shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two yearsbut which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to twenty thousand rupees25(2) whoever being a public servant, commits any offence under this section, shall bepunishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to the punishment provided for that offence30punishment for neglect of duties4 whoever, being a public servant, willfully neglects his duties required to be performedby him under this act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one yearremoval of person likely to commit offence355 (1) where the special court is satisfied, upon a complaint or a police report that aperson is likely to commit an offence under this act, it may, by order in writing, direct such person to remove himself beyond the limits of such area, within such time as may be specified in the order, and not to return to that area from which he was directed to remove himself for such period, not exceeding two years, as may be specified in the order(2) the special court shall, along with the order under sub-section (1), communicate to the person directed under that sub-section the grounds on which such order has been made(3) the special court may revoke or modify the order made under sub-section (1), for the reasons to be recorded meriting, on the representation made by the person against whom such order has been made or by any other person on his behalf within thirty days from the date of the order6 any person contravening an order of the special court made under section 5 shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and with finefor non compliance of orders of the special courtspecial court7 for the purposes of providing for speedy trial, the appropriate government shall ,with the concurrence of the chief justice of high court, by notification in the official gazette, specify for each district a court of session to be a special court to try offences under this act5preventive action to be taken by the law and order machinery108 (1) a district magistrate or a sub-divisional magistrate or any other executivemagistrate or any police officer not below the rank of a deputy superintendent of police may, on receiving information and after such inquiry as he may think necessary, has reason to believe that a person or a group of persons, residing in or frequenting any place within the local limits of his jurisdiction is likely to commit an offence or has threatened to commit any offence under this act and is of the opinion that there is sufficient ground for proceeding, declare such an area to be an area prone to atrocities and taken preventive action(2) the appropriate government may, by notification in the official gazette, make oneor more schemes specifying the manner in which the officers referred to in sub-section (1) shall take appropriate action specified in such scheme or schemes to prevent atrocities and to restore the feeling of security amongst the women and children15relief and rehabilitation9 (1) the appropriate government shall provided such relief and rehabilitation to thevictims of the atrocities under this act by framing schemes as may be notified from time to time(2) without prejudice to the generality of the aforesaid provision the appropriate government shall provide the following facilities to the victims of atrocities under this act,—20 (i) free medical facilities; (ii) free board and lodging; (iii) recreational facilities; and (iv) vocational training2510 the central government shall, after due appropriation made in this behalf, providesuch requisite funds for being utilised for the purposes of this actcentral government to provide fundsremoval of difficulties11 if any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this act, the central government may, by order published in the official gazette, make such provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:30provided that no such orders shall be made after the expiry of the period of three yearsfrom the date of commencement of this actprotection of action taken in good faith3512 no suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the centralgovernment or against the state government or any officer or authority of government or any other person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this actoverriding effect of the act13 save as otherwise provided in this act, the provisions of this act shall have effectnotwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or any custom or usage or any instrument having effect by virtue of any other law40power to make rules14 the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, make rules forcarrying out the purposes of this act statement of objects and reasonswomen and children are the most vulnerable classes of our society every now and then, women and children are subject to atrocities and violence they are subject to all kinds of torture which more often than not go unreported at times, the state machinery do not react with the kind of agility that is required on the incident of atrocities there is no dearth of incident when women are paraded naked in many places in our country and, at times, also declared as witches they are left at the mercy of their fate and no one comes to their rescue women are mentally and sexually exploited and pushed in to flesh trade similarly, children when they are to enjoy their childhood, are made to work hours together and exploited they are made to work in restaurants, small hotels, dhabhas, small repair shops, carpet industries, glass industries, etc under unhygienic and hazardous conditions children are the future of the country and, therefore, putting them in such kind of situations is a blot on us of late, there are reported incidents of sexual exploitation of children which is very unfortunate for the country therefore, in order to give the women a respectable position in the society and save the childhood from the tyranny of the unscrupulous employers, it is high time that a law should be framed to protect them from atrocities by providing strict punishment to serve as deterrent for othershence this billvanga  geetha financial memorandumclause 9 of the bill provides that the appropriate government shall provide relief and rehabilitation to the women and children who are victims of atrocities further, clause 10 of the bill provides that the central government shall provide requisite funds for the purposes of this bill the bill, therefore, if enacted, will involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that a recurring expenditure of rupees twenty crores will be required for the purposenon-recurring expenditure to the tune of rupees one crore will also be required memorandum  regarding  delegated  legislationclause 14 of the bill gives power to the central government to make rules for carrying out the purposes of this bill the rules will relate to the matters of details onlythe delegation of legislative power is of normal character———— a billto prevent the commission of offences of atrocities against the women and children in thecountry, to provide for special courts for the trial of such offences and for the relief and rehabilitation of the victims of such offences and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto————(shrimati vanga geetha, mp)mgipmrnd—6496rs(s-4)—16032006