Describing the new criminal justice system as a “watershed moment for our society”, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud on Saturday recounted how courts hear “sordid stories in the course of search and seizure operations under the Income Tax Act”, praising the new laws for having better safeguards.
Justice Chandrachud was speaking at a conference on “India’s Progressive Path in the Administration of Criminal Justice System”, organised by the Ministry of Law and Justice. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, Attorney General R. Venkataramani, and Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta were also present at the conference. The new laws — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and the Bharatiya Sakshya Act (BSA) — are aimed at a complete overhaul the country’s criminal justice system and will come into effect from July 1.
