MUMBAI, March 26 -- The Maharashtra legislature on Wednesday approved the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (Maharashtra Amendment) Bill 2026 to include provisions in the Shakti Bill to protect the identities of acid attack victims and ensure jail term for digital sexual harassment.
Speaking in the legislative council, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also heads the home department, said that the Shakti Bill was passed by the state legislature in 2020 and sent to the Centre for the President's assent. The President had subsequently sent it back.
The state was told that the Centre was formulating a similar law combining the provisions of the then IPC, CrPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, he said.htc
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