Highlights Of Bills Replacing IPC, CrPC & Evidence Act As Stated By Union Home Minister
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday introduced three Bills in the Lok Sabha to repeal the British-era Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Indian Evidence Act (IEA), and the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC). The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023, which replaces the IPC, prescribes capital punishment as the maximum sentence for mob lynching and suggests 10-year imprisonment for sexual intercourse with women on the false promise of marriage. The Bill, however, states that “sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 18 years of age, is not rape”. Mr. Shah said the section on sedition has been repealed. “The Bill for the first time defines terrorism and offences such as separatism, armed rebellion against the government, challenging the sovereignty of the country, which were earlier mentioned under different provisions of law,” he said. The Bill proposes 313 amendments that will bring revolutionary changes to the criminal justice system, Mr. Shah said. He introd...