Arunachal Police holds awareness campaign on implementation of new criminal laws

The Arunachal Pradesh Police, on July 1 conducted an awareness programme on the launch of three new criminal laws which replaced the Bristish Era Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, at Itanagar police station.
 

Deputy Commissioner, IAS Shweta Nagarkoti Mehta, Magistrate, SDPO Kengo Dirchi, Officer in Charge of various police stations of capital and other officials attended the awareness programme.
 

Speaking to reporters, Additional SP Capital Itanagar Angad Mehta said  “Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam came to effect from July 1. This marks a big change and now the laws of British colonism era were evolved and changed according to victim sanctity. Major changes like transparency, victim compensation, witness protection programmes were brought. Special benefits were also given to the police.” 
 

He added, “Under Section 107, the cheating money should be refunded to help victims regarding registration of cases through zero FIR, while in every 90 days, they should get information about the update of their cases. In every stage, a timeline for justice will be given. In all these 3 laws we will witness increase in conviction rate and in Arunachal we can see double digits of conviction rates under this new law which will take two years.” 
 

The additional SP also said, “In next five years, there will be visible change in the criminal justice. These laws were brought after consultation and drafting, and will bring a positive impact as compared to last laws which were used for last 150 years. These new laws will be a foundation of new India to ensure justice to its citizen and in context to Arunachal, our Police will be at forefront on implementing these laws. Online FIR, Zero FIR and third FIR is supposed to be written complaint in the nearest police station.”