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THE PROMISE OF NEW CRIMINAL LAWS UNDER TEST
The New Indian Express
|July 02, 2024
WITH the three new criminal laws to revamp the justice delivery system coming into force, the police across the country have already started invoking them.
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The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860, has fewer sections-358 as compared to the IPC's 511. Also, 21 new crimes have been introduced and the law has been given more teeth by extending the imprisonment awarded in 41 crimes, enhancing fines in 82, and prescribing minimum punishment in 25. The other two new laws are the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam that replace the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Among the positives in the BNS is the provision to file a 'zero FIR' at any police station irrespective of jurisdiction, online registration of complaints, eliminating
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