ISLAMABAD: Senate rejected a bill seeking public hanging of rape convicted ,24 votes were against the bill while 14 were in favor of it.
The bill was presented by Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) Senator Mushtaq Ahmed was supported by Senators Mehr Taj Roghani, Kamran Murtaza, Maulana Faiz Muhammad, Hafiz Abdul Kareem, Kamal Ali Agha, Abdul Qadir, and others.
The bill seeking to publicly execute those convicted of rape was rejected by Senate, with parliamentarians strongly opposing the idea as a “counter-effective measure in deterring sexual crimes”.
The upper house of parliament rejected the move to amend the Pakistan Penal Code,1860, and Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, through the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2023 with a 24:14 vote.
The senators who had voted against the bill called for improved prosecutions, investigations for combating sexual crimes, and a better jail environment to ensure that such heinous crimes are averted in the future.
Defending his proposal after it had been defeated, JI’s Mushtaq said the senators did not talk about the “basic issue” and noted that the lawmakers spoke about “brutality” becoming rife due to public executions, but it’s already rife.
