Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “act of violence” means the act punishable under section 8; (b) “Deputy Superintendent of Police” includes Assistant Commissioner of Police in a Metropolitan area; (c) “hostile environment” means intimidating or coercive environment that is created against the victim or the family members of the victim or against any witnesses or any one providing assistance to the witness or victim, which includes being subjected to the following act- (i) boycott of the trade or businesses of such person or making it otherwise difficult for him to earn a living; or (ii) extern such person or his family from the locality where he or his family has normally been residing as permanent resident; or (iii) public humiliation through exclusion from public services, including education, health and transportation or any act of indignity; or (iv) deprive or threaten to deprive such person of his fundamental right; or (v) force such person to leave his home or place of ordinary residence or livelihood without his express consent; or (vi) any other act, whether or not it amounts to an offence under this Act, that has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment; (d) “lynching” means any act or series of acts of violence or aiding, abetting or attempting an act of violence, whether spontaneous or planned, by a mob on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, language, dietary practices, sexual orientation, political affiliation, ethnicity; (e) “mob” means a group of two or more individuals; (f) “offensive material” means any material that can be reasonably construed to have been made to incite a mob to lynch a person on the grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, language, dietary practices, sexual orientation, political affiliation, ethnicity or any other related grounds; (g) “Rajasthan Victim Compensation Scheme” means the Rajasthan Victim Compensation Scheme, 2011, as amended from time to time; (h) “State” means the State of Rajasthan; (i) “Superintendent of Police” includes Deputy Commissioner of Police in a Metropolitan area; (j) “victim” means any person, who has suffered physical, mental, psychological or monetary harm as a result of the commission of any offence under this Act, and includes his relatives, legal guardian and legal heirs; (k) “witness” means any person who is acquainted with the facts and circumstances, or is in possession of any information or has knowledge necessary for the purpose of investigation, inquiry, or trial of any crime involving an offence under this Act, and who is or may be required to give information or make a statement or produce any document during investigation, inquiry or trial of such case and includes a victim of such offence; (l) Words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act No. 2 of 1974) or the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act No. 45 of 1860) shall have the meanings assigned to them respectively in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act No. 2 of 1974), or as the case may be, in the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (Central Act No. 45 of 1860).