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Pratap Chakravarty

India scraps colonial-era penal laws to ‘end the endless wait for justice’

Supreme court in India © AFP

New Delhi – India has replaced its British-era criminal laws with new codes which promise justice rather than punishment in the boldest legislative step by the government since it resumed office in June.

The new laws simplified online complaints, made video recording of crime scenes mandatory and promised stiffer laws to protect women in India which recorded 85 rapes a day in 2022, as per latest available data.

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