{"id":87224,"date":"2024-11-18T22:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/senate-panel-moves-to-criminalise-necrophilia-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:24:05","slug":"senate-panel-moves-to-criminalise-necrophilia-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/senate-panel-moves-to-criminalise-necrophilia-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate panel moves to criminalise necrophilia | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n ISLAMABAD:<\/p>\n

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A Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously approved amendments to the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), officially criminalising necrophilia. This comes after years of a legal gap on the matter.<\/p>\n

Necrophilia refers to having sexual attraction towards or committing sexual assault on a dead body.<\/p>\n

The Senate Standing Committee on Interior, chaired by Senator Shahadat Awan, held a meeting at the Parliament House, with Senators Irfan-ul-Haq Siddiqui and Samina Mumtaz Zehri, as well as officials from various departments, in attendance.<\/p>\n

The committee unanimously approved the “Pakistan Penal Code (Amendment) Bill, 2024,” introduced by Senator Zehri.<\/p>\n

The bill highlights the disturbing occurrences of necrophilia in Pakistan, noting that similar laws have already been implemented in other countries to criminalise such acts.<\/p>\n

The amendment specifically revises Section 377 of the PPC, which pertains to “unnatural offences.”<\/p>\n

This new bill now includes deceased bodies, making necrophilia punishable by life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously approved amendments to the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), officially criminalising necrophilia. This comes after years of a legal gap on the matter. Necrophilia refers to having sexual attraction towards or committing sexual assault on a dead body. The Senate Standing Committee on Interior, chaired by Senator Shahadat Awan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/1448815-jail-14990614251630864804-0\/1448815-jail-14990614251630864804-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t