Some of the legal aids of
preventing violence towards women are:
1. The
Prevention of Oppression towards Women and Children Act-2000: This act
(amended in 2003) identifying
sexual harassment as punishable offence, has said that ‘if
a man assaults a women sexually
or makes any indecent gesture and commits any sexual
harassment to fulfill his sexual
desire, he will get punishment of not exceeding 7 years
and not less than 2 years
rigorous imprisonment and also with the additional punishment
of fine.’
2. The
Prevention of Acid Crime Act-2002─This Act clearly identifies matters
like
punishment for killing any
person through acid throwing, causing injury by throwing
acid or trying to throw acid or
assisting of any of these crimes and judicial proceedings
and other related matters.
The
Punishment for Killing through Acid: If a person kills another person by
throwing acid, he will be
punished with capital punishment or death sentence or lifetime
rigorous imprisonment and with
additional capital fine of maximum one lakh taka.
The
Punishment for Causing Injury by Acid: The act also says that if a person by
throwing acid injuries another
person by which he loses (a) either partly or wholly,
eyesight, hearing or his face
become mutilated, the criminal will be punished with
capital punishment of death
sentence or lifetime rigorous imprisonment or additional
fine of maximum taka one lakh,
(b) Any of his body parts, organs, glands becomes
nonfunctional or any parts of
his body gets injured, then the offender will be punished
with rigorous imprisonment of
maximum fourteen years but not less than seven years
and fine of Taka fifty thousand
maximum. Besides, acid throwing or attempt to acid
throwing is also a punishable
offence. Through these Act, the government regulates the
storage, transportation,
carrying of Acid. The Acid Control Amended Act is passed by
our national parliament in 2010.
3. The
Laws for the Prevention of Trafficking of Women and Children: Accordingly
to ‘The prevention of oppression
towards women and children Act- 2000,’ if a person
brings any woman or child
inside Bangladesh or traffics
to another country or sell or
purchase with a motive of
engaging her in any illegal or
immoral act like prostitution,
he will be given capital
punishment or death sentence
or life time rigorous
imprisonment or rigorous
imprisonment for not
exceeding 20 years, but not
less than 10 year and with
fine as additional punishment.
Besides, this Act also has
provision regarding kidnapping
of women and children, taking ransom, rape, death due
to rape, sexual harassment,
death for dowry, etc.
According to the law, ‘Human
Trafficking Prevention Act-2011’ if a person conducted
for human trafficking, it shall
be considered punishable offence and will be given death
sentence with capital punishment
of fine, Taka five lacs.
