The significance in the changes lies in list of crime situations that fall in this category is that it will, in a first, include a person who takes advantage of a child in a situation of natural calamity to commit a sexual assault or causes the death of the victim. The amendments, piloted by the WCD ministry, will now need to go to Parliament to become law.
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