The practice of untouchability, in its overt and covert form was made a cognizable and non compoundable offence, and strict punishment is provided for any such offence.
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Also, from the Code Amendment Act " of 1997 Section 283bis, having sex with an adolescent under 18 is a compoundable offense even with the consent of that person.
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The Bill provides for certain offences to be compoundable at a sum of up to half the stipulated fines, and forfeiture of documents and items even if there is no prosecution for the offence.
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In March 2015, it was reported that Government of India was planning to amend Section 498A . It would be made compoundable, which would allow the parties to settle if the court recommended it.
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(Both offences are compoundable under Rule 10 of the Malaysian Highway Authority Act . ) Abdul Aziz said although the accidents were minor, they remained in the record of the accused and the court had to take this into consideration.
