Difficulties Under New Criminal Laws
Difficulties Under New Criminal Laws
The provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), except the provision of sub-section (2) of section 106, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), except the provisions of the entry relating to section 106(2) of BNS in the first schedule, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA), have come into force from 1st July, 2024. The Government has taken various initiatives immediately after the notification of three laws on 25th December 2023, to ensure the effective implementation and generating awareness amongst all stakeholders including police, prison, prosecutors, judicial, forensic personnel as well as public.
Following steps have been taken for imparting training of stakeholders for the implementation of BNS, BNSS and BSA:
The details of the provisions under BNS, BNSS & BSA alongwith the corresponding provisions of IPC, CrPC& Indian Evidence Act (IEA) are available on NCRB Sankalan web application (https://ncrb.gov.in/uploads/SankalanPortal/Index.html). Some of the important highlights of the new criminal laws are at Annexure.
The details of awareness programmes organised by the Government to make the public aware of the new criminal laws are as follows:
ANNEXURE
Highlights of New Criminal Laws
The new criminal laws mark a significant step towards empowering Indian citizens. These laws aim to create a more accessible, supportive, and efficient justice system for everyone. The following are key provisions of the new criminal laws, highlighting the impact on individual rights and protections:
an individual. Under community service, the offenders get the chance to positively contribute to society, learn from their mistakes, and build stronger community bonds.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.
- Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) has developed and shared 13 training modules for capacity building of the stakeholders viz., police, prison, prosecutors, judicial officers, forensic experts and Central Police Organizations. It has adopted ‘Training of Trainers’ model to train Master Trainers from all States/ Union Territories through Central Academy for Police Training(CAPT), Bhopal and Central Detective Training Institutes (CDTIs) at Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Ghaziabad and Bengaluru. It has also conducted 274 training courses/webinars/seminars and imparted training to 43150 officers/personnel so far including Master Trainers. It has setup Control Room with a team of law & police officers to address queries and resolve issues raised by field functionaries in the implementation of new Criminal Laws. States/ Union Territories have also imparted training to 8,40,465 officials, including 8,16,146 police officers and personnel from prison, forensics, judicial and prosecution, in coordination with BPR&D.
- iGOT- Karmayogi Bharat portal is running three courses [Introduction to BNS, BNSS and BSA] for training of officials on the new criminal laws since 21st February, 2024. Overall status of these courses is as under: