Capital Punishment For Mob Lynching: Big Revamp Of Indian Criminal Laws
A new offence on acts of secession, armed rebellion, subversive activities, separatist activities or endangering sovereignty or unity and integrity of India has been added in the revised laws.
New Delhi: The administration today announced a thorough revision of the penal code from the colonial era, which will increase penalties for crimes like mob lynching and child rape and create a new offense called "endangering unity" in place of sedition.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita will replace the Indian Penal Code of 1860, according to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who introduced three measures. The Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act will be replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya, respectively.
For assessment by a Standing Committee, all three were referred.
The updated rules now include a new offense for acts of secession, armed rebellion, subversion, separatist activity, or harming India's sovereignty, unity, or integrity.
The Home Minister announced the repeal of the sedition statute. For acts putting India's sovereignty, unity, and integrity at peril, Section 150 has taken its place.
"Whoever intentionally or knowingly incites or attempts to incite secession, armed rebellion, or subversive activities, or encourages feelings of separatist activities, or endangers India's sovereignty or unity and integrity through words, whether spoken or written, or by signs, visible representation, electronic communication, or other means.
According to Section 150, anyone who engages in or conducts any such crime faces a fine in addition to a sentence of life imprisonment or a sentence that may last up to seven years.
As it is written in the explanation, "Comments expressing disapprobation of the measures, or administrative or other action of the Government with a view to obtain their alteration by lawful means without exciting or attempting to excite the activities referred to in this section."
The new bill gives laws against women and children, murders, and "offences against the state" priority.
Community service will be one of the penalties for minor offenses for the first time.
Those who avoid arrest may also be tried without them, according to the proposed law.
Additionally, the new law stipulates a one-year prison sentence for buying votes during elections.
Additionally, gender has been removed from offenses. New offenses of terrorist acts and organized crime have been added with deterrent penalties in order to deal effectively with the problem of these crimes and terrorist activities.
Additionally, the penalties and punishments for a number of offenses have been increased.
The penalty for gang rape ranges from a life sentence to 20 years in prison.
In the new measures, the death penalty is still an option.
Amit Shah told lawmakers that it aims to modernize rules from the British era.
The purpose of the laws that will be repealed was to strengthen and defend the British government; they were intended to punish rather than to provide justice. The three new laws that will replace them would preserve the rights of Indian citizens, according to Mr. Shah in the Lok Sabha.
The goal will be to deliver justice, not to punish. To foster the idea that crime must stop, punishment will be meted out, he stressed.
First Information Reports, or FIRs, must be updated by the police within 90 days, and an E-FIR can be filed from anywhere.
It is necessary to videotape the search and challan (prosecution) processes.
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