Death penalty for pirates in India

(B2) The new anti-piracy law presented to the Indian parliament on Tuesday punishes any act of piracy with life imprisonment, and the death penalty if the act caused the death of a person. This law applies to any act committed in the exclusive economic zone (up to 200 miles from the coast). The attempt, aid or complicity of pirates can be punished by up to 14 years in prison and a fine. The Indian penal code suffered from a gap: piracy was not in itself repressed. The law is not content to fix the sentences, we learn from the Times of India, it also provides for special sessions of the courts, of rapid procedure, for extradition.