Hit-and-run cases will be punishable by 10 years imprisonment while a lenient view is taken in cases of road accidents where the accused attends to the victims by taking them to hospital, Shah said. The bills provide for timelines from the registration of FIRs to the investigation and filing of charge sheets. Trial in absentia will now take place of accused such as those in bomb blasts or economic offences who, after committing crimes, are hiding, he said.
Replying to the debate on the bills, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the new criminal draft legislation will focus on ensuring justice rather than punishment as is so in the existing colonia-era criminal laws the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Indian Evidence Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
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