Key Points
The submission was made by Attorney General R Venkataramani before a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala during the hearing of a PIL challenging a CrPC provision related to service of summons only to a family's male member if an accused in a criminal case is unavailable...
The central government is actively considering amendments in criminal laws, the law officer said, adding, "Consultations have taken place..
When the bench asked the top most law officer about the relevance of the submission that the change in sedition law was also in the offing, he said the government was actively looking at amending the CrPC and the IPC...
Earlier, the top court had on November 21 last year issued a notice to the Centre besides seeking the attorney general's assistance on the PIL challenging a CrPC provision related to service of summons on a family's male member alone if an accused in a criminal case is not available...
"Service when persons summoned cannot be found: Where the person summoned cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with some adult male member of his family residing with him, and the person with whom the summons is so left shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefor on the back of the other duplicate," reads section 64 of the Code of Criminal Procedure...
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