Unhappy with the list of witnesses being produced before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, which is examining the Bills to replace the country’s criminal laws, the Opposition has submitted a list of 16 experts that includes senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, former Chief Justice U.U. Lalit, and Justice Madan Lokur, a former Supreme Court judge.
It was also suggested that experts being called should include Supreme Court and High Court judges, members of Bar Councils, legal scholars, prison officials and reform activists, ethnic and religious leaders, as well as cyber crime experts, among others.
Another Opposition MP in the panel, meanwhile, pointed out that based on the current pace of scrutiny, it would take at least one and a half years to go through the three proposed legislations. “These legislations will impact the poorest of poor and still we are rushing through them without paying the due attention, which is very unfortunate,” he said.
