{"id":255962,"date":"2023-08-12T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255962"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:42:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:12:46","slug":"think-then-act-proposed-criminal-codes-need-serious-deliberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/think-then-act-proposed-criminal-codes-need-serious-deliberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Think, Then Act \u2013 Proposed criminal codes need serious deliberation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Think, Then Act \u2013 Proposed criminal codes need serious deliberation<\/strong>\u201d published in<strong> The Times of India <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>12<sup>th<\/sup> August 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong><strong>GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>Issues with three bills <\/strong>that aim to replace IPC, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, three bills, <strong>Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023<\/strong> have been introduced in the Parliament that aim to <strong>replace IPC, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the concerns with the Bill?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Despite claims of repeal, offences like sedition still persist under a different chapter.<\/li>\n<li>The inclusion of a separate provision for mob lynching where the punishment for a mob could involve death, creates a perplex situation.<\/li>\n<li>Marital rape is still not criminalized.<\/li>\n<li>Criminal defamation still remains in the Bill.<\/li>\n<li>Requiring forensic teams to visit crime scenes for serious offenses seems unrealistic due to the existing backlogs even in metropolitan labs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>No drafts were released in the public domain before the Union home minister introduced the bills in Lok Sabha. The reforms committee which worked on these bills also lacked transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, <strong>instead of rushing there are various shortcomings that need to be addressed.<\/strong> The parliamentary standing committee, to which the bills have now been sent, must look into these issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThink, Then Act \u2013 Proposed criminal codes need serious deliberation\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a012th August 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation. Relevance: Issues with three bills that aim&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/think-then-act-proposed-criminal-codes-need-serious-deliberation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think, Then Act \u2013 Proposed criminal codes need serious deliberation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,225],"class_list":["post-255962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-polity","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}