With the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs set to meet on Friday to adopt its report on the three Bills that seek to replace the Indian Penal Code, CrPC and Evidence Act, two members of the committee are learnt to have written to the panel’s Chairman seeking more time to peruse the draft reports.
The draft reports reached the members on Saturday night. It is learnt that Congress’s P Chidambaram and Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien have written to the panel’s chairman, Brijlal, asking him not to rush through the process of adopting the draft reports. The Opposition members of the committee had already been complaining that the panel did not consult enough domain experts.
It is learnt that the two have flagged once again that there have not been enough consultation with the stakeholders. Pointing out that the three drafts — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Bills — are important, the MPs have told the Chairman that five days are not enough to go through the reports.
Chidambaram and O’Brien had last month written to the Chairman suggesting that the panel meet the representatives of the Councils of different states, the Bar Council of India, the Supreme Court Bar Association, international organisations, human rights organisations media organisations, and law enforcement agencies.
Besides, they had suggested that the panel should hold consultation with judges of the Supreme Court and the high courts, senior practitioners of criminal law, experts on juvenile justice, experts on cybercrime and technology, prison officials and reform advocates, legal scholars, academic institutions, and MPs, MLAs and members of local councils.
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