(1) The victim shall be entitled to express his or her opinion before the concerned authority on the following matters:
(a) While making a charge against the suspect for the offence concerned,
(b) Where it is required to make decision for not instituting the case in relation to the suspect,
(c) Where it is required to make agreement with the accused by way of plea bargaining as to the charge pursuant to the prevailing law,
(e) Where request is to be made to the case trying authority for a clemency in the punishment imposable pursuant to the prevailing law,
(f) Where additional claim is to be made to the charge-sheet filed before the case trying authority pursuant to the prevailing law,
(g) Where a pre-sentencing report is to be prepared before specification of the sentence for the offender pursuant to the prevailing law,
(h) While specifying sentence for the offender pursuant to the prevailing law,
(i) Where investigation is to be carried out pursuant to the prevailing law as to whether the accused has mental or physical capacity to commit the offence,
(j) Where decision is to be made to send him or her to the service of diversion program in the case of the accused or offender,
(k) Where decision is to be made to provide probation, parole, suspended sentence, open prison, community service or any other service of similar type to the offender pursuant to the prevailing law,
(l) While conducting hearing as to whether or not consent is to be granted for withdrawing the case related to the offence that is sub judice in the court pursuant to the prevailing law.
(2) For expressing an opinion pursuant to sub-section (1), the concerned authority shall provide the victim with a reasonable time.