India's new criminal ‘l laws’: Sedition, treason, hate crime, lynch mobs, crime against women, kids
Modi govt’s criminal ‘reform’: Sedition, treason, hate crime, lynch mobs, crime against women, kids
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The Modi government Friday moved three bills to overhaul India’s colonial-era criminal law. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanh...
Indian criminal laws being replaced many supposedly in response to recent violence but covers a lot more.
My primary observation is it heavily undermines freedom of speech criminalizes more vague blanket activities.
One prior complaint about Indian laws were it primarily protected women. As a departure from that, some of the new laws punishes a gender neutral manner but still only considers women as victims.
I am eager to see how this plays out and received by the public. Atleast for now, many are teeing these as focusing on religious lines and possibly along caste.