be removed and necessary new sections should be added . The ideology of the ruling party is Hindutva agenda . If the ruling party feels that many existing sections of the law are creating obstacles to convert India into Bharat and convert it into a Hindu state , it is natural that those sections are removed and necessary sections are added . But the ruling party does not have the courage to tell the people the reality . India stands on a strong democratic-secular foundation that grew through the Indian freedom struggle and under a constitution that protects it .
Decolonization and Indianisation of the legal system are an appropriate slogan to achieve that goal . Otherwise , the shortcomings of the existing legal system should be pointed out . But it has not been pointed out that there were any defects in the existing legal system . Some additions have been made to the existing laws and they have only been expanded .
In the new addition , even hunger strikes and dharna are crimes . As such , excessive powers have been given to the police . Any act that the state does not like in word , writing , news or action will be treated as a crime . In short , it is to silence disagreements , protests and objection . The new law has everything needed to eliminate fraud and keep the media at bay .
There is no doubt that Indian criminal law needs to be reformed . Many laws are outdated . The problem of overlap has been pointed out in many laws . For example , there is a separate law for adulteration of foodstuffs . There is a special law for pollution . But all these laws in the old criminal law are repeated in the new law . This results in two types of punishment for the same crime . The Indian legal system has not been able to bring back those who went abroad from India by defrauding the banks and
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Let us Fight against the Policies of the Central and State Rulers who are Turning the Country into a Market for Cheap Labour for the Imperialists
Inspiration of Anti-Imperialist Struggle — Comrades Bhagat Singh , Rajguru , Sukhdev
“ We believe that when a government becomes destructive of the natural right of man it is the man ’ s duty to destroy that government .”
the government . While the legal system can try and decide cases even in their absence , there is no such provision in the new law .
Apart from this , the most important problem facing the criminal law in India is the backlog of cases in the courts . According to the judicial data released in 2020 , 44.84 million cases are pending in Indian courts . Majority i . e . 75 % of these cases are criminal cases . How many innocent people are killed in jails because of this . The new law does not propose any solution for this . According to the National Crime Records Bureau ’ s
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2022 estimate , there are 573,220 people in Indian jails . There are 133415 people who have been convicted and are in jail . That means more than 75 % of those in prison are undertrials . If the prisoners are guilty , let them be punished . But jailing them for years as undertrials is anti-democratic and a violation of human rights . Why is this happening and what is the way to solve it was not discussed during the law reform . The people did not get what they expected from the criminal law reform . In short , the reform in law will only benefit the ruling party ’ s ideological practice . �
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