The BNS Bill seeks to repeal the offence of sedition under the IPC and provides capital sentence as the maximum punishment for crimes such as mob lynching and rape of minors.
The Lok Sabha today referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee, three Bills that are aimed to replace the Indian Penal Code, the Criminal Code for Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act.For this.
"Crime against women and many social problems faced by them have been addressed in this bill. For the first time, intercourse with women under the false promise of marriage, employment, promotion and false identity will amount to a crime," he said. Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill 2023: For First Time, Marrying a Woman After Concealing Identity To Be Crime Under Proposed Law, Says Amit Shah.
The political inertia to check lynching and other forms of mobocracy can only be attributed to wilful endorsement motivated by electoral and ideological gain despite a rap from the apex court