New Criminal laws will be implemented from today across the Country. Some useless clauses of the British era have been removed and some new things have been added.
Three new criminal laws came into force today. The main Opposition Congress said these laws were “forcibly” passed by suspending 146 MPs from Parliament proceedings.
The party also said 90 per cent of these laws are a “cut, copy and paste job”.Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who led the law revision exercise, has said these laws “are made by Indians, for Indians and by an Indian Parliament and marks the end of colonial criminal justice laws”.
He has also said that these laws were not just about changing the nomenclature but bringing about an overhaul. “Soul, body and spirit of the new laws are Indian,” he had said.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said 90-99 per cent of the “so-called new laws” are a cut, copy and paste job. “A task that could have been completed with a few amendments to the existing three laws has been turned into a wasteful exercise,” he said.
