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Opposition MPs question ‘haste’ in adopting draft reports on bills to replace IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act | India News
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NEW DELHI: Opposition members of the parliamentary Standing Committee on home affairs have questioned the “haste” in adopting the draft reports on the three criminal justice bills to replace the IPC, CrPC and the Evidence Act. The committee examining the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bills, has informed its members that the draft reports will be adopted on October 27.
At least 10 members, representing the opposition INDIA coalition, are set to submit dissent notes against adopting the reports.In the 30-member panel, the BJP has 16 members.
Two opposition MPs – P Chidambaram (Congress) and Derek O’Brien (TMC) have written to the panel’s chairperson raising concerns about the process of scrutiny of the bills and have also urged him to postpone the meeting, according to sources. Questioning the “haste,” both members have said they did not get enough time to go through the three reports which were sent to them only on the late evening of October 21.
Requesting postponement of the panel’s meeting, one of the opposition members pointed out that the draft report was sent in the middle of festivals even though the next Parliament session is at least four weeks away. TMC MPs in the panel have, meanwhile, raised concern over the meeting being called a day before Lakshmi Puja which is celebrated with fervour in Bengal, on the fifth day after Vijaya Dashami. “It again proves how BJP typically fails to understand the culture of Bengal,” said a TMC panel member.
Opposition MPs, who have in the past raised questions over the experts being called for examination, have questioned the short notice for calling the meeting even as many of the experts suggested by them are yet to be called.
One of the opposition MPs, in his letter to the panel chairperson, pointed at an “alarming lack” of consultation with stakeholders and shared a list of experts that had been suggested by them for examination.
Former Chief Justice of India U U Lalit, retired Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur, eminent jurist Fali Nariman, Senior Advocate Rebecca John and Advocate Menaka Guruswamy are among the names included in the list.
Raising concern about the bills, an opposition MP alleged that these proposed laws which are meant to replace the colonial-era procedural laws are “even more colonial”.
The 30-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has 16 BJP MPs including the chairperson, four of the Congress, two each of DMK, TMC, JD(U) and BJD, and one of the Shiv Sena.
At least 10 members, representing the opposition INDIA coalition, are set to submit dissent notes against adopting the reports.In the 30-member panel, the BJP has 16 members.
Two opposition MPs – P Chidambaram (Congress) and Derek O’Brien (TMC) have written to the panel’s chairperson raising concerns about the process of scrutiny of the bills and have also urged him to postpone the meeting, according to sources. Questioning the “haste,” both members have said they did not get enough time to go through the three reports which were sent to them only on the late evening of October 21.
Requesting postponement of the panel’s meeting, one of the opposition members pointed out that the draft report was sent in the middle of festivals even though the next Parliament session is at least four weeks away. TMC MPs in the panel have, meanwhile, raised concern over the meeting being called a day before Lakshmi Puja which is celebrated with fervour in Bengal, on the fifth day after Vijaya Dashami. “It again proves how BJP typically fails to understand the culture of Bengal,” said a TMC panel member.
Opposition MPs, who have in the past raised questions over the experts being called for examination, have questioned the short notice for calling the meeting even as many of the experts suggested by them are yet to be called.
One of the opposition MPs, in his letter to the panel chairperson, pointed at an “alarming lack” of consultation with stakeholders and shared a list of experts that had been suggested by them for examination.
Former Chief Justice of India U U Lalit, retired Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur, eminent jurist Fali Nariman, Senior Advocate Rebecca John and Advocate Menaka Guruswamy are among the names included in the list.
Raising concern about the bills, an opposition MP alleged that these proposed laws which are meant to replace the colonial-era procedural laws are “even more colonial”.
The 30-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has 16 BJP MPs including the chairperson, four of the Congress, two each of DMK, TMC, JD(U) and BJD, and one of the Shiv Sena.
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