Court can't ask for communication between ministers, prez in proposed law: MHA to Panel
home ministry is learnt to have informed a parliamentary panel looking into the new three bills seeking to reform the criminal laws, that a provision has been added in the Evidence Act that no court shall require any privileged communication between the ministers and the President of India to be produced before it.
These details were shared with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, which is examining the three bills which seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and the Evidence Act, with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bills, respectively.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla made a detailed presentation on various aspects of the proposed legislation. His presentation will continue for two more days (Friday and Saturday). In the second week of September, members are likely to get two days to seek clarification from the home secretary.
Home Minister Amit Shah had introduced the three bills –– the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill –– in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session, and the House had referred them to the standing committee.
The ministry has informed the panel that it has proposed a provision in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which will be replaced with Bharatiya Sakshya Bill that no court shall require privileged communication between ministers and the President of India to be produced before it, sources said.
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The provision is added in the chapter 10 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill which talks about examination of witnesses
