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"Entire exercise is wasteful": P Chidambaram on new criminal lawsP Chidambaram of Congress criticized India’s new criminal laws, claiming that 95% of the laws were copied from existing statutes. He condem...- Any mention of IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act to be interpreted as referring to new criminal laws: GovtThe Union Ministry of Law and Justice has notified the replacement of IPC, CrPC, and Evidence Act with Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bhartiya Nag...
- Some key provisions of India's new criminal lawsIndia's new criminal justice system has faced criticism for potentially granting more power to police and increasing case backlogs. The ove...
- New Indian Penal Code has become more draconian: P ChidambaramCongress leader P Chidambaram expressed concerns over the newly enacted criminal justice bills, stating that the new Indian Penal Code has ...
- Three bills to replace British-era criminal laws get President's assentPresident Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to three new criminal justice bills, recently approved by Parliament. The Bharatiya Nyaya San...
- Government proposes to abolish sedition lawA new section, separately, deals with the crime of mob lynching and has been incorporated in the BNS bill, with death penalty as the maximu...
- Cheering a cricketing opponent may be unpatriotic, but certainly not seditiousIn theory, the Indian political parties support the Constitution freedom to dissent. In practice, they seem to deny Kashmiris these freedom...
- Strike down sedition law, offensive portions in UAPA: Ex-judge to Supreme CourtDelivering the Viswanath Pasayat Memorial lecture - which was attended among others by Justice U U Lalit, next in line to be the chief just...
- View: Why Congress must lead the charge on abolishing sedition law"I was extremely disappointed that the Congress did not forcefully support one of its liberal lynchpins Dr Shashi Tharoor when he (along wi...
- View: The contempt finding in the Prashant Bhushan case serves to reinforce the notion of 'respect'India is a society where the traditional social values of hierarchy and subordination of the subaltern rungs of the hierarchy to those abov...
- Rajnath mocks Rahul Gandhi's promise to eradicate poverty through NYAY schemeThe Narendra Modi government has demonstrated its resolve to pull out all those living below the poverty line, Singh said and claimed that ...
- Lok Sabha passes 2 bills to repeal 245 archaic lawsSome 1824 acts were repealed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over the reins of the government, the law minister said.
- At a loss for words! These bloggers found themselves in trouble for mocking politicosPoliticos often prove to be thin-skinned when criticised, often taking drastic steps to get the concerned people punished.
- It's a direct fight against dictatorship: Kanhaiya KumarIn fresh attack on the NDA government, JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar today vowed to wage a "direct fight" against "dictatorship".
- Kanhaiya Kumar vows to wage battle for scrapping of sedition lawKanhaiya Kumar vowed to wage a battle for scrapping of the sedition law under which he and two other PhD scholars of the university were ar...
- Supreme Court sends Hardik Patel's plea against sedition charge to another benchA bench of Justices V Gopala Gowda and Amitava Roy, which heard Patel's lawyer Kapil Sibal for over half-an-hour, merely said "we will send...
- Malaysia amends sedition act amid criticismThe revised act makes it illegal to promote sedition on the internet, which may give rise to web censorship.
- Malaysia PM Najib Tun Razak refuses to scrap sedition lawUnder the law, speech deemed to incite unrest or religious or social tensions or which criticises traditional rulers can carry a three-year...
- Drop sedition law from penal code, demands Mumbai Press ClubCondemning the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi, the Mumbai Press Club demanded that the section of sedition must be droppe...
- Sedition charged cartoonist Aseem Trivedi goes to jail in protestDespite the outrage over the sedition charge on Trivedi, a police officer said there are no plans to drop it immediately.
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