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2023-12-20 08:29:43.0
#AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi also voices his apprehensions about other aspects, including -
- Non-inclusion of DK Basu guidelines
- Bar on third parties from filing mercy petitions on behalf of death row prisoners
- Bar on bail where an investigation, inquiry or trial in more than one offence or in multiple cases are pending against someone
- Provisions penalising terrorism over potential violation of civil liberties
- Lack of provision penalising sexual assault against men and stalking of men
- Provision reintroducing 'sedition' without using this nomenclature despite the govt's undertaking to the Supreme Court
- Borrowing of provisions from special act UAPA and incorporation in the proposed penal code
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