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New Delhi:The Standing Committee on Home Affairs, which scrutinised the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 Bill, has recommended that Section 497 of IPC relating to adultery should be retained in the proposed law...
In its report on Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 Bill, the panel has said that the institution of marriage is considered sacred in Indian society and that there is a need to safeguard its sanctity..
The 28-member Parliamentary panel headed by BJP leader Brijlal, which scrutinised thethree laws Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya that will replace the IPC, the Criminal Procedure Code, and the Indian Evidence Act, tabled the reports in Parliament Monday.. Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the three bills in the Lok Sabha on 11 August to overhaul the criminal justice system in the country...
While non-BJP members of the panel had raised concerns over the Hindi title Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita of the proposed law on the ground that it may be in violation of Article 348 of the Constitution, the Committee in its report has noted that the text of the Sanhita is in English...
The committee has recommended that in Clause 22 in BNS that states that nothing is an offence, which is done by a person who, at the time of doing it, by reason of mental illness, is incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that he is doing what is either wrong or contrary to law the definition of mental illness should be changed to unsound mind...
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