"Entire exercise is wasteful": P Chidambaram on new criminal laws
P Chidambaram said the entire exercise of enacting the new criminal laws was wasteful and 95 percent of the criminal procedure has been copied and pasted.
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Speaking at an event in Delhi, the Congress leader said, «I have compared, in the parliamentary committee, the old law with the new law, section by section. 90 to 95 percent of the IPC has been copied and pasted. 95 percent of the criminal procedure has been copied and pasted.»
«If you are copying and pasting, why change the numbers and the sections? These are alienated to a large part of the population. This entire exercise is a waste. It is just to confuse the lawyers, the judges, and the people,» he said, taking a dig at the Centre.
He said that the most democratic society has abolished the death penalty, but it has been retained in the new criminal laws.
«Under the Supreme Court order, all sedition cases cannot be tried today. The new section makes it worse. Death penalty has been retained. The most democratic and civilised society has abolished the death penalty,» the Congress veteran said.
He argued that convicts serving the death penalty lose their sanity. «Imprisonment is the most rigorous punishment. Why retain the death penalty? No civilised country has solitary confinement. It creates tremendous punishment for the convicts. The convicts lose their sanity.»
He said that the Supreme
