https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/FINAL-290624-VFD-Press-Release-New-criminal-laws-mockery-of-Constitution.pdf Vijay Hiremath the new laws, give unprecedented powers to the executive and the police officers. According to Vijay Hiremath, under the guise of doing a copy-paste
job, the union government has introduced many illogical and draconian legislations. Hiremath further
highlighted the issue of impossibility of filing complaints against any defaulting police officer, due to the
rather sinister and confusing sections the BNSS has. Hiremath concluded ends by saying that these laws are
extremely dangerous, and will make the whole of the country and its citizens a target.
Vrinda Grover: the provisions of seizure, attachment of property, and
forfeiture that have now been included in these laws, which highly expand the powers of the state to target
individuals arbitrarily. Light was also shed by Vrinda Grover of the expansion of the period of police custody
through the BNSS, which could lead to increase in cases of intimidation, torture and coercion of the ones
arrested. Connecting to the same provision, she also spoke on how the said law will have a negative impact
on the right of bail that can be exercised by the one arrested.
Teesta Setalwad: several provisions that provide draconian powers to the police, endanger the statutory right
to bail, criminalise free speech (in a newly introduced provision that she described as “sedition plus” and also
penalise, if not criminalise legitimate democratic protest. Safeguards against police abuse that had been
introduced through amendments earlier have been deliberately left out said Setalvad.
s a new crime as the ‘Terrorist act’ under general
penal law. When there exists, for dealing with terrorist activities special laws like UAPA (Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act, 1967), why are the same provisions and features being brought into the new penal
provisions of the new laws with extraordinary discretion given over these to the police?
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