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Congress party has called for wider consultations involving experts and the general public on the three Bills that seek to overhaul India’s criminal justice system to stay away from the “trap of bulldozing the entire criminal law structure” without discussion.
In a statement, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said that on August 11, without any prior intimation or public consultation or inviting suggestions from legal experts, jurists, criminologists and other stakeholders, the Modi government introduced three Bills from its “black magic hat”, thereby restructuring the nation’s entire criminal law apparatus in a “clandestine, hidden and opaque manner”.
“The introductory remarks of the Home Minister himself gave away the fact that Amit Shah is himself out of depth, ignorant and oblivious to the entire exercise,” the Congress leader said.
Kapil Sibal, Rajya Sabha MP told ANI, on Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill said , “…On one hand, they (BJP) are saying that we want to end the colonial mindset but on the other hand, they are bringing such laws. The country cannot run like this. They say (India) is the mother of democracy, but I think it is the father of dictatorship…”
