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Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress-led government in West Bengal has constituted a seven-member committee to review the three new criminal laws, according to a notification issued by the states Home and Hill Affairs Department Tuesday...
This makes West Bengal the second State after Tamil Nadu to look into the criminal laws Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) which came into effect earlier this month...
The notification said that the state government had written to the Centre to defer the implementation of the laws, but the issues raised were not considered, which is why the state has decided to constitute a committee for reviewing the laws...
According to the state governments notification, the committee will have the power to engage with academic experts, senior advocates, research assistants and other legal experts to seek their views, and even carry out a public consultation to seek opinion, and submit the findings in the form of a reportwithin three months...
The West Bengal government has cited Article 246 (2) of the Constitution, according to which states have the power to make laws with respect to any of the matters in the Seventh Schedule (Concurrent List)...
