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Criminal Procedure Bill: Previous law is outdated, obsolete, Jethmalani counters Chidambaram
April 07, 2022 7:45 am
He said, “I am particularly concerned about detenues because we know the rigors of Emergency. We know what Mr Chidambaram's (Congress) government did in 1975, when they detained thousands of Opposition leaders for petty offences purely on political grounds. Perhaps that part needs a second look.”
Delhi Confidential: Jethmalani calls Rajya Sabha Speaker 'My Lord', apologises for old habit
April 07, 2022 4:13 pm
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Jethmalani, a Senior Advocate, on Wednesday rose to counter Congress leader P Chidambaram's criticism of the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 tabled in the House by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Criminal Procedure Bill unconstitutional, against SC verdicts: Chidambaram
April 07, 2022 7:28 am
Chidambaram said the objective of this Bill — “to expand the ambit of powers, to use modern techniques for body measurements and to provide legal sanctions’’ — appear “harmless words’’ but the “harm and mischief lies in these sections’’.
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