Law report recommending abolition of death penalty sent to all states: Government

NEW DELHI: The Law Commission report which recommended abolishing death penalty for all crimes other than those related to terrorism, has been circulated to all the states for their views, the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Quoting the Ministry of Home Affairs, Minister of State for Law P P Chaudhary said in response to a written reply to a question that as criminal law and criminal procedure are on the concurrent list of the Constitution, the report was circulated to all the states on October 13, 2015 for their views on the issue.

"The views of some of the states are awaited and they are being reminded regularly," he said.

Two government appointees in the law panel -- then ex-officio members P K Malhotra (Law Secretary) and Sanjay Singh (Legislative Secretary) had given their dissent on the report. Besides them, Justice Usha Mehra (retd), the then permanent member of the panel too had opposed the report.