National Commission for Women has strongly opposed the move of lowering age of consensual sex from 18 to 16. Its member Charu Wali Khanna, who was conducting a workshop to sensitise cops on violence against women at police training center in Karnal, said that the center was keen to pursue the Bill which is both damaging and illogical.

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