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The ordinance stipulates stringent punishment for perpetrators of rape, particularly of girls below 12 and 16 years. Death sentence has been provided for rapists of girls under 12 years, officials said while quoting the ordinance. As she congratulated the people for the ordinance, Ms.
Maliwal noted that very few protests had achieved so much in such less time, and termed the government’s decision a “historic victory” for independent India. Ending her fast, Ms.
Maliwal said, “Every day children aged three, four or six years are getting raped in a brutal manner. more-inDelhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal on Sunday ended her hunger strike after President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated an ordinance to give stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below 12 years..