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ConCourt outlaws corporal punishment
03 Apr 2019 at 15:34hrs | Views
The Constitutional Court has with immediate effect outlawed the infliction of moderate corporal punishment or canning of male juvenile offenders.
The court upheld a High Court order declaring section 353 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, which allowed the canning of juvenile male offenders under the age of 18 who would have committed any offence on the instructions of the court, as invalid.
The Constitutional Court held that the section that allowed moderate corporal punishment was a violation of section 53 of the constitution which protects the fundamental rights of every person not to be subjected to physical or psychological torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading, treatment or punishment.
The Constitutional Court held that the section that allowed moderate corporal punishment was a violation of section 53 of the constitution which protects the fundamental rights of every person not to be subjected to physical or psychological torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading, treatment or punishment.
Source - zbc
