P Chidambaram wants criminal laws to be kept in abeyance & reviewed by law commission | India News – Times of India
CHENNAI: Alleging that “part-timers” drafted the three new criminal laws that came into effect on July 1, former Union minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday called for the laws to be kept in abeyance and reviewed by law commission. He said law commission had been bypassed in the process of enacting new laws and dissent notes of opposition were not considered.Speaking at DMK legal wing’s hunger strike organised to protest ‘anti-democratic and anti-constitutional’ laws, Chidambaram cautioned about potential disarray in administration of criminal justice with introduction of the new laws. The Union govt copy-pasted much of the previous laws, IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act in the new laws, and the laws contained defects and discrepancies, he said, criticizing govt...