Criminal law Bills: The government intends to abolish the criminal laws from the colonial era and replace it with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. When introducing the bill in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister Amit Shah stated that crimes such as mob lynching and minor rape would now carry the death penalty. Additionally, ‘endangering unity’ would be the new offence in place of sedition under the new law.
Twenty New Offences Introduced
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita now includes twenty new offences. These include terrorism, organised crime, hit-and-run incidents, mob lynchings, deceitful sexual exploitation of women, snatching, acts of abetment outside of India, acts that jeopardise India’s sovereignty, integrity, and unity, and the dissemination of false or fake news.
Focus on Laws Against Murder
The new bills give priority to laws that punish murderers, safeguard women and children, and dissuade people from harming the state. The new bill expands the definition of terrorism to include acts of causing damage or destruction in a foreign country with the intention of defending India. This used to be restricted to harm done to Indian public, private, or government infrastructure.
Kidnapping for Political Aims Included
The detention, kidnapping, or kidnapping of an individual to force the government to act or refrain from acting will now also fall under the terror provision. The death penalty may be applied to mob lynchings, depending on how serious the crime was. The maximum penalty for raping a minor has also been listed as the death penalty. To start, theft under ₹ 5,000 and five other minor offences are punishable by ‘community service’, according to the government.
Transgender Inclusion in the Concept of Gender
The concept of “definition of gender” now includes transgender people. The new bill does not include homosexual sex and adultery as crimes. Suicide attempt will no longer be regarded as a criminal offence. The repeal of the sedition law was declared by Amit Shah. The section that criminalises actions that jeopardise India’s sovereignty, unity, and integrity has taken the place of the word “sedition” in the proposed law. Sedition under the current legislation is punishable by up to three years in prison or life in prison. The maximum sentence is now seven years under the new clause.
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