Mamata Banerjee speaks in Bengal Parliament and calls Aparajita anti-rape law ‘exemplary and historic’ | Latest news from India

The bill, titled ‘Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) Bill 2024’, aims to strengthen the protection of women and children by revising and introducing new provisions relating to rape and sexual offences.

The Bengal Chief Minister stated that rape is a curse for humanity and that social reforms are needed to stop such crimes. He said the opposition should ask Governor CV Ananda Bose to sign the Aparajita Act. “It is our responsibility to make it effective after that,” Mamata Banerjee said in the Assembly.

This is a developing story. More details are expected.