PM Modi shall be accompanied by Union Residence Minister Amit Shah. (File)
Chandigarh:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the profitable implementation of three new felony legal guidelines on Tuesday at Chandigarh.
The three felony legal guidelines — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam — got here into impact on July 1, changing the British-era Indian Penal Code, Code of Prison Process and the Indian Proof Act, respectively.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the profitable implementation of three transformative new felony legal guidelines — “Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam — on December 3, at 12 midday at Chandigarh,” stated an official assertion on Monday night.
The programme will showcase the sensible utility of those legal guidelines, demonstrating how they’re already reshaping the felony justice panorama. A stay demonstration will even be held, simulating a criminal offense scene investigation the place the brand new legal guidelines shall be put into motion, the assertion stated.
For the occasion, PM Modi shall be accompanied by Union Residence Minister Amit Shah, sources stated.
The Union Territory of Chandigarh has grow to be absolutely compliant, with 100 per cent implementation of the legal guidelines.
As a part of safety preparations, police have deployed further forces and arrange a number of checkpoints whereas safety has additionally been tightened in adjoining elements, together with Panchkula and Mohali.
On Tuesday, visitors will stay restricted/diverted in Chandigarh on some routes, police stated.
In keeping with the assertion, the conceptualisation of the three legal guidelines was pushed by the imaginative and prescient of the prime minister to take away colonial period legal guidelines which had continued to exist put up Independence, and to remodel the judicial system by shifting focus from punishment to justice.
Conserving this in thoughts, the theme of this programme is ‘Safe Society, Developed India – From Punishment to Justice’, it stated.
The brand new felony legal guidelines, which have been applied nationwide on July 1, 2024, goal to make India’s authorized system extra clear, environment friendly, and adaptable to the wants of latest society, it added.
These landmark reforms mark a historic overhaul of India’s felony justice system, bringing in new frameworks to sort out modern-day challenges equivalent to cybercrime, organized crime and guaranteeing justice for victims of assorted offenses, in response to the assertion.
On August 4, Shah visited Chandigarh and launched the e-Sakshya, Nyay Setu, Nyay Shruti and e-Summon apps for the three new felony legal guidelines.
He had then stated that the brand new legal guidelines would show to be the “largest” reform witnessed by India within the twenty first century.
After the entire implementation of those legal guidelines, India may have probably the most trendy and technology-equipped felony justice system on this planet, he had stated.
In the meantime, as a part of safety preparations, authorities have declared a “no-fly zone” over Chandigarh from Monday until Tuesday for drones and unmanned aerial automobiles, in response to an order issued by Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav.
“Motion of VVIPs is scheduled to Chandigarh on December 3. Due to this fact, in view of rising threats on account of latest traits of finishing up terrorist assaults through the use of drones fitted with improvised explosive system by anti-national components and protecting in view of the safety of VVIPs and basic public, it turns into crucial to declare the realm of Union Territory of Chandigarh as ‘no-flying zone’ for drones and unmanned aerial automobiles,” the order stated.
The order will, nevertheless, not be relevant to regulation enforcement businesses and individuals authorised by the competent authorities authority.
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