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New criminal laws: The shift in balance of power towards the police is troublingDo the laws that replace IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act work to enhance accountability of the state to the people? On the contrary, the new...26 Dec, 2023, 11.21 PM IST- Opportunity to replace, redraft colonial criminal laws 'wasted' : Congress leader P ChidambaramThe Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed three key bills -- the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita and ...21 Dec, 2023, 01.21 PM IST
- Opposition MPs question 'haste' in adopting draft reports on bills to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence ActOpposition MPs in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have raised concerns about the speed at which draft reports on three...25 Oct, 2023, 03.11 PM IST
- Home panel to adopt draft reports on bills to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence ActThe committee was given three months to examine the three bills and submit its report after Home Minister Amit Shah had requested the chair...23 Oct, 2023, 05.41 PM IST
- Law panel chief interacts with members of Home Committee; suggests changes in BNSLaw Commission Chairperson Justice (retd) Ritu Raj Awasthi was also present at the meeting of the standing committee on Home headed by BJP'...22 Sep, 2023, 09.05 PM IST
- SC to hear on Sep 12 pleas challenging validity of colonial-era sedition lawThe law on sedition, which provides for a maximum jail term of life under section 124A of the IPC for creating "disaffection towards the go...09 Sep, 2023, 02.16 PM IST
- View: India’s criminal justice system needs real decolonising, and must go beyond mere textual changesThe historical roots of IPC unveil a narrative of colonial imposition. Macaulay's presumption of Western legal (and civilisational) superio...16 Aug, 2023, 10.57 PM IST
- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill allows using draconian police powers for political ends: Kapil SibalFormer Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal under the UPA government claimed that the BJP government's proposal to replace the colonial-era India...14 Aug, 2023, 11.12 AM IST
- Law Commission bats for sedition law, says don't repeal, just put in place some safeguardsAmid continuous allegations of rampant misuse, there have been demands from various quarters in India that the provision be repealed like c...02 Jun, 2023, 11.23 AM IST
- Govt at advanced stage of consultation on reexamining colonial-era sedition law: Centre to SCThe Supreme Court on Monday deferred hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the sedition law after the Centre said it is at an advanced st...01 May, 2023, 05.10 PM IST
- SC to hear pleas challenging validity of penal law on seditionOn October 31 last year, the top court had extended its May 11 direction putting on hold the sedition law and the consequential registratio...30 Apr, 2023, 07.09 PM IST
- Centre seeks time from SC for filing response to pleas challenging sedition lawA three-judge bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, on April 27, had directed the Central government to...03 May, 2022, 01.50 PM IST
- PIL in Supreme Court seeks 'comprehensive', 'stringent' law to replace colonial era IPCThe plea, filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, alternatively urged the top court that it being "custodian of the Constitution a...17 Jul, 2021, 04.12 PM IST
- Will not allow gay sex, adultery in Army: General Rawat"The Army is conservative. The Army is a family. We cannot allow this to perpetrate into the Army," he said on adultery, adding soldiers an...10 Jan, 2019, 08.36 PM IST
- Shashi Tharoor's bill to decriminalise homosexuality defeated in Lok SabhaFor the second time in three months, Lok Sabha voted against the introduction of a private member's bill brought by Congress member Shashi ...11 Mar, 2016, 05.06 PM IST
- International rights group demands 'Comrade' S Kovan's releaseAn international rights group demanded the repealing of a colonial-era law that was enforced to arrest a folk singer on writing songs criti...03 Nov, 2015, 03.44 PM IST
- Defamation law abused, should be re-examined: Arvind Kejriwal to Supreme CourtThere is a need to decriminalise penal provision for defamation and the "colonial law", which has been inevitably abused, needs to be re-ex...15 Jul, 2015, 09.19 PM IST
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