BJP GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES BILLS TO REPLACE IPC, 1860; CRPC, 1973; IEA, 1872 IN LOK SABHA
The Modi Government introduces three Bills to replace British-Era Criminal statutory and procedural laws. These bills are “The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; The Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 and these bills will replace The Indian Penal Code, 1860; The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and The Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
The Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860 is a comprehensive code of criminal law that is applicable throughout India. It was enacted by the British colonial government to establish a uniform legal framework for criminal offenses in the country. The code was drafted on the recommendations of first law commission of India established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833 under the chairmanship of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
The three proposed statutes were referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee that would hold exhaustive deliberations and is expected to table the report by the next session of Parliament. “From 1860 to 2023, the country’s criminal justice system functioned as per the laws made by the British. With these three laws, there will be a major transformation in the criminal justice system”.
The professional lobby including lawyers, law students and academicians are jumbled with the proposed amendment as they have to re-memorize the new laws. Talking with one of the famous Supreme court advocate, the views obtained that re-memorizing is minor problem in comparison to fading the old memory which records the data for 160 years. Most of the members of the society knows that Murder is punishable as per Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code 1860, but it is very very difficult to teach all the persons that it will be read in Section 101 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
BARE ACT – The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023