Provisions in the bill to punish anyone who uses insulting words, insults, behaves insultingly or behaves like that on the basis of caste or color etc.
We use Google Cloud Translation Services. Google requires we provide the following disclaimer relating to use of this service:
This service may contain translations powered by Google. Google disclaims all warranties related to the translations, expressed or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, reliability, and any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
A non-governmental bill has been registered in the House of Representatives with provisions to legalize discrimination on the basis of caste or community. Chandrakant (CK) Raut, President of Janamat Party and member of the House of Representatives, prepared the draft of the bill and registered it.
In the bill made to make provisions regarding the offense and punishment of discrimination based on caste, color, region, dress, nationality or origin, discrimination has been declared a crime and the act of discrimination has been considered a crime and a provision of punishment has been proposed. Raut said that the bill is also necessary to provide justice and proper relief to the victims.
Since Nepal is a multi-racial, multicultural and multilingual society, the bill has been introduced because it is the state's responsibility to ensure everyone's equal existence, dignified life and equal opportunities.
Rule 100 of the House of Representatives Rules provides that any member can present a bill. Following the same rule, Raut brought the Non-Governmental Bill. The bill stipulates that anyone who uses insulting words, looks down on someone, behaves insultingly or behaves in such a manner should be punished. It is mentioned in the bill that it is an offense to do such an act in any other way including
audio-visual material, writing, picture, shape, cartoon, poster book or display. It has been proposed to list the act of causing suffering to organizations and individuals for opposing apartheid.
If someone knows that someone has committed such a crime, the victim can file a complaint at the police office and the person who commits such a crime will be imprisoned for one to three years and fined from 10,000 to 30,000 rupees.
Those who help, encourage or incite discrimination on the basis of caste, color or nationality or origin have been offered half of that punishment. It is mentioned in the bill that if a person holding a public position commits such a crime, the punishment will be 50 percent more than the punishment given to others.
If someone is killed by discrimination, the punishment of genocide has been proposed. In the bill, there is a provision of imprisonment for three years to five years and a fine of Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000 for causing physical or mental harm to someone. Earlier, 14 MPs jointly registered a non-governmental bill in the House of Representatives last July to regulate the control and punishment of human body burns.
Similarly, last year MP Pradeep Paudel registered a non-governmental bill related to medicines and health materials (regulation and control). But after Poudel became the minister, the bill was inactive.
