Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah holds a press conference in New Delhi on three new criminal laws, calls the laws victim-centric and justice-oriented
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah holds a press conference in New Delhi on three new criminal laws, calls the laws victim-centric and justice-oriented
All aspects of the new laws discussed extensively with various stakeholders for four years, no law in Independent India discussed at such length
The first priority in the new laws is to crimes against women and children, made more sensitive by adding a new chapter on crimes against children and women
On being fully implemented the three laws will make country’s justice system as the most modern criminal justice system in the world
New laws have not only adopted technology but also incorporated it in such a way that they can keep pace with the changing technology in the next 50 years
All three laws to be available in all the eight scheduled languages and cases will also be conducted in those languages
In the new laws, sections have been added as per their relevance and many removed that were creating problems for the people
In new laws, priority is to justice instead of punishment, speedy-trial and speedy-justice instead of delay, and protection of victims’ rights
The new laws also set a deadline for the completion of all procedures, which upon full implementation will end the endless wait for justice
In any case, justice can be served up to Supreme Court in three years from filing of the FIR
In the new laws, the law of sedition made by the British has been abolished
Some people are spreading lies that in the new laws remand period has been increased, but it is not true, in the new laws the remand period is same as before for fifteen days
New laws make forensic investigation mandatory in offenses punishable by seven years or more, this will speed up justice delivery and increase conviction rate to 90%
Against a target to train 12,000 master trainers for imparting training to about 22.5 lakh policemen, more than 23,000 master trainers were trained
