Criminal Law Bills To Replace IPC, CrPC & Evidence Act : Live Updates From Lok Sabha Discussion

Lok Sabha adjourned till tomorrow 11 AM. Discussion to continue tomorrow.

#BJP MP Ram Kripal Yadav: The three bills proposed to be replaced are signs of our ghulami, of our slavery. This is a part of this govt's efforts to remove signs of ghulami.

BJP MP Ganesh Singh: FIR's case diary, case diary to chargesheet, chargesheet to judgment...an attempt has been made to digitise all these processes.   

BJP MP Dilip Saikia talks about the focus of the three bills on speedy justice, thanks the union home minister for this 'historic step'.

MP PP Chaudhary commends the inclusion of provision for community service for small crimes, instead of sending the accused to jail.

BJP MP PP Chaudhary: Today, the most vulnerable are witnesses. Anyone will think ten times before testifying in court. The Supreme Court and high courts have had to fill in the blanks often because of lacuna in the old laws. 

The three new bills will address several modern problems, including that of delay and arrears, of deficient investigation, of cybercrimes and terrorism, mob lynching, etc.

BJP MP Satya Pal Singh calls for retaining Sections 377 and 497 IPC which were read down or struck down by #SupremeCourt -

"Who among us will want their family members, their children to have the freedom to have sexual relations with whoever they want? If this happens, families will break apart leading to more children in conflict with the law and more criminals. An Allahabad HC judge has recently said a very pertinent thing, that there is a systematic design to destroy the institution of marriage. He said that the brutish concept of changing partners in every season cannot be considered to be a hallmark of a stable and healthy society. And we want to create a country that becomes the world's vishwaguru. This is why I am making this request. Besides this, without Section 377, an adult male would have no recourse against sexual assault."

BJP MP Satya Pal Singh: Former President KR Narayanan had said courts in India are not temples, but casinos. Judgment depends on throw of dices by advocates. Judges do not give justice, but they'll give judgment according to evidence put up before them. Here, the accused is more protected that the victim...

#BJP MP Tejasvi Surya says that since '14, a conscious effort has been made by PM Modi-led govt towards country's decolonisation, through education policy and now through these bills -

"Swarajya has attained true meaning because country is moving towards respecting swabhasha, swadharma, and swadesha."

Tejasvi Surya mentions the recent acquittal of a politician in a hate speech case (Speaker asks him not to mention the name)  : He was acquitted on the premise that the person who recorded the speech did not provide the original DVR in which the speech was recorded. But the speech was telecast live and whole world watched. But the Court ruled that the digital evidence was not admissible since the person who recorded the original DVD did not supply it. So, all other copies available online were not accepted as primary evidence. This was a major lacuna in our Evidence Act, which is cured in Sakshya Bill. As per clause 57, "Where a video recording is simultaneously stored in electronic form and transmitted or broadcast or transferred to another, each of the stored recordings is primary evidence". Had this bill been there earlier, the person who made hate speech would have been