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The correct answer is 2 years or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees.

• Punishment for male adult marrying a child:
  • Whoever, being a male adult above eighteen years of age, contracts a child marriage shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees or with both. 

Additional Information

• Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006:
  • This Act may be called the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
  • It extends to the whole of India and it applies also to all citizens of India without and beyond India.
  • Provided that nothing contained in this Act shall apply to the Renoncants of the Union territory of Pondicherry.
  • It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different States and any reference in any provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed in relation to any State as a reference to the coming into force of that provision in that State. 

• Assault or using force against a woman of any age with intent to outrage her modesty is an offence punishable under Section 354 of IPC,1860.
• This is a cognizable offence, meaning in such offences police can arrest the accused even without the warrant.
• Punishment for this offense is-:  Jail of minimum 1 year which may extend to 5 years along with fine.

The correct answer is Domestic violence.

• It is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to protect women from domestic violence.
• It was brought into force by the Indian government on 26 October 2006.
• The Act provides for the first time in Indian law a definition of domestic violence, with this definition being broad and including not only physical violence, but also other forms of violence such as emotional/verbal, sexual, and economic abuse.
• It is a civil law meant primarily for protection orders and not meant to be enforced criminally.
• In October 2016, the Supreme Court has made a verdict to delete the words “adult male” before the word ‘person’ in Section 2(q) of the Act making it gender-neutral.

Important Points

• Salient features of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005:
  • Includes physical and mental ill-treatment.
  • Primarily meant for the protection of wife or female live-in partners.
  • Law also extends to sisters, widows, or mothers.
  • Harassment in the form of dowry demands also included in this law.
  • Gives women the right to secure housing.
  • The court can also issue protection orders that prevent the abuser to harass the women by acts at her workplace.
  • The act proposes the appointment of protection officers and NGOs.
  • A breach of a protection order is a non-bailable offence. 

The correct answer is Punishment shall not be less than seven years, but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

• Under Section 370, whoever commits the offence of trafficking shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than seven years, but which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

​ Important Points

•  Section 370 -
  • ​Trafficking means whoever, for the purpose of exploitation, a. recruits b. transports c.harbours, d.transfers, or e. receives, a person or persons, by-
    • ​using threats,
    • using force, or any other form of coercion,
    • by abduction,
    • by practising fraud, or deception,
    • by abuse of power,
    • by inducement, including the giving or receiving of payments or benefits, in order to achieve the consent of any person having control over the person recruited, harboured, transported, transferred, or received, commits the offence of trafficking. 
• The expression "exploitation" shall include any act of physical exploitation or any form of sexual exploitation or practices similar to slavery, servitude, or the forced removal of organs.
• The consent of the victim is immaterial in the determination of the offence of trafficking.

The correct answer is 1987.

• Sati (Prevention) Act:
  • An act to provide for more effective prevention of the commission of Sati.
  • Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 is the law enacted by the  Government of Rajasthan in 1987 for the prevention of the Sati System in India.
  • It became an act of the Parliament of India with the enactment of The Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 in 1988.
  • It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu & Kashmir.
  • At present, there are only three laws in force:
    • Rajasthan Sati (Prevention) Act,1987.
    • Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 ( Bengal Regulation XVII of 1829).
    • Tamil Nadu Sati Regulation, 1830 (Tamil Nadu Regulation I of 1830).
  • The abetment of Sati will be punishable with death or imprisonment for life and also liable to fine.
  • It is punishable with a minimum imprisonment of one year which may extend to seven years and with a minimum fine of 5000 rupees which extend to 30,000 rupees.

​ Additional Information

• Meaning of Sati is the Burning or Burying alive of Widows or Women whose Husband got died.
• This comes under the Ministry of Women and Child Development.