Parliament Winter Session, Day 11 Live Updates: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to table the reworked criminal law Bills for discussion today.
Parliament Winter Session 2023 Live Updates, Day 11: Soon after Parliament convened for Day 11 of the ongoing Winter Session, both Houses were adjourned amid Opposition leaders raising slogans against the major security breach on Wednesday, wherein two people with smoke canisters entered the Lok Sabha. The leaders chanted slogans of ‘PM sadan me aao, Amit Shah sharam karo' in both Houses. Parties in the Opposition INDIA bloc earlier met at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s chamber’s.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is today scheduled to table the reworked criminal law Bills for discussion. The three new criminal law Bills – the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, to replace the Indian Penal Code; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for the Code of Criminal Procedure; and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023, for the Indian Evidence Act, will replace existing laws.
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In other news, Shah is scheduled to move the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023 in Rajya Sabha for its consideration and passage. On Wednesday, Parliament passed a bill to repeal 76 redundant and obsolete laws. The government said the move is part of its continuing efforts to improve the ease of living and doing business.
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Parliament Winter Session Live Updates, Day 11: Union Home Minister Amit Shah to table revised versions of three criminal law Bills in Lok Sabha to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860; The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (originally enacted in 1898); and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
No GST dues pending, some states have not submitted AG report, says Nirmala Sitharaman
The Centre on Tuesday said no GST dues of any state are pending before it and that some state governments have not submitted the AG’s authenticated certificate for release of their share of funds.
Replying to a supplementary question in Rajya Sabha, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the narrative that GST dues are pending from the Centre is not correct and is a misnomer as states have not submitted the AG’s report. “It is important to understand that the AG’s (accountant general) certification is (mandatory)… If the AG’s certificate does not reach us, we cannot clear… Some states, even after sending the AG’s certificate, tell us to hold on till they clear it finally,” she said.
Revised criminal code Bills: Life term, death for hate-crime murder, mob lynching; terror ambit widened
Enhancing the minimum punishment for mob lynching and hate-crime murder from seven years to life imprisonment and expanding the definition of terrorism, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday introduced revised versions of three criminal law Bills in Lok Sabha to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860; The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (originally enacted in 1898); and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023, the Bill that seeks to replace the IPC, now prescribes a punishment for mob lynching that extends from life imprisonment to death. In its earlier version, introduced in August, the Bill prescribed a punishment that extended from seven years to death.
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First published on: 13-12-2023 at 09:02 IST
