Nueva Delhi: Interior Minister of the Union, Amit Shah, said on Tuesday that J & K should urgently use the new disposition in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) allow the ‘judgment in absence’ of a defendant declared as a proclaimed criminal and has prevented himself to evade trial without immediate arrest perspectives.
Shah made this observation while presided over a meeting here to review the implementation of the new criminal laws in J&K, in the presence of LG LOACJ SINHA and Prime Minister Omar Abdullah. The willingness of ‘judgment in absence’ is expected to facilitate the trial in terrorist cases in J & K, since the main accused in these cases, a master mind who directs foreign terrorist attire and managers of the defendant arrested – operate from safe reflections in Pakistan or Kashmir occupied by Pakistan or Kashmir occupied by Pakistan or Kashmir. .
By virtue of section 355 and 356 of the BNSS, Pakistan -based intellectual authors can be judged in India and the judgment pronounced in their absence.
Shah ordered the J & K authorities to guarantee the complete implementation of the new criminal laws – BNSS, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam – in April.
The sources of the J&K LG office said that the infrastructure and the systems required for the 100% implementation of the new laws, between pillars of criminal justice such as the police, prisons, prosecution, courts and forensics, are found In an advanced stage of preparation. The training of the J & K police in the new criminal justice system is almost 72%, they added. Shah has asked that this be completed as soon as possible.
Informing the reporters after the meeting, Abdullah said that while the implementation of criminal laws is not their mandate (with the law and order in the domain of LG), their government has a role in the dissemination of consciousness about Laws between universities, schools and social and social and social and political circles.
During the meeting, which DGS from the Police Investigation and Development Office and the National Crime Records Office attended, Shah emphasized the need for the J & K police to concentrate on safeguarding the rights of citizens, with activities Terrorists about safety and security improvement scenario in the UT.
He said that the process of presenting charges must be accelerated and decisions on the invocation of provisions related to terrorism and organized crime taken after scrutiny at the level of police superintendent, to avoid any improper use.