New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday introduced that the state will ‘fully’ roll out the brand new felony legal guidelines inside the subsequent six months. This got here following a evaluate assembly within the North Block with Union Residence Minister Amit Shah relating to the implementation technique of the brand new provisions.
Chatting with reporters, Fadnavis shared that Maharashtra has already made vital strides in implementing the brand new legal guidelines and talked about that 27 vans have been deployed to boost forensic infrastructure for circumstances older than seven years. Moreover, he acknowledged that the state has established on-line techniques for courts, however below the brand new provisions, devoted and designated cubicles wanted to be arrange in courts and forensic labs.
Moreover, Fadnavis stated that 90 per cent of Maharashtra’s police pressure, which consists of two lakh personnel, has already been educated to implement the brand new legal guidelines. “At the moment, Union HM Amit Shah known as a evaluate assembly relating to the three felony legal guidelines… The HM reviewed how we’re engaged on the brand new provisions within the legal guidelines. On behalf of the state of Maharashtra, we knowledgeable him now we have deployed 27 vans for the forensic infrastructure for circumstances older than seven years… We have now established on-line techniques for courts, however in line with the brand new legislation, now we have to arrange a chosen, devoted and notified cubicle in courts and forensic labs. We have now began engaged on this, and it is going to be accomplished within the subsequent 6 months,” the Maharashtra CM acknowledged.
“Circumstances will probably be heard in courtroom through videoconferencing, and the accused is not going to should be introduced in courtroom again and again… It was an excellent assembly… We’ll fully roll out the brand new legal guidelines within the subsequent 6 months,” he added. The three new felony legal guidelines come below the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023; and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), 2023.
These legal guidelines have been conceptualised with the imaginative and prescient of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to interchange colonial-era legal guidelines that persevered post-independence and to reform the judicial system by shifting the main target from punishment to justice. The brand new felony legal guidelines, which have been carried out nationwide on July 1, 2024, purpose to make India’s authorized system extra clear, environment friendly, and adaptable to the wants of latest society. These landmark reforms signify a historic overhaul of India’s felony justice system, bringing in new frameworks to deal with modern-day challenges reminiscent of cybercrime and organised crime and making certain justice for victims of varied offences.
In line with the Union Residence Minister, Chandigarh turned the primary metropolis within the nation to totally implement the brand new felony legal guidelines.
