Bharatiya Sakshya Bill 2023
Source: Deccan Herald
GS II: Governance
Overview
- News in Brief
- What is the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill 2023?
Why in News?
Recently, the Union Home Minister introduced Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023.
Remember: Evidence Act – Bharatiya Sakshya
News in Brief
- After introduction the Bills have been sent to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.
- The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill proposes the general rules and principles regarding collection and submitting of evidence in all criminal matters, which are being governed under the Evidence Act.
- The laws being replaced were focused on protecting and strengthening the British administration.
What is the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill 2023?
- It is the goal of the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 to consolidate and to provide for general rules and principles of evidence for fair trial.
- The recent sociological and technical developments have not been reflected in the current Indian Evidence Act.
- The new bill’s suggested amendments are meant to bring the laws into line with peoples’ needs and ambitions today.
Key Provisions
- It makes electronic or digital records admissible as evidence, giving them the same legal effect as paper documents.
- The bill repeals five existing provisions of the Evidence Act, modifies 23 provisions, and adds one new provision.
- The bill proposes amendments to 23 Sections and contains 170 Sections in total.
- The scope of secondary evidence is expanded to include copies made from the original by mechanical processes, counterparts of documents, and oral accounts of document contents.
- The bill introduces precise and uniform rules for dealing with evidence during the trial of cases.
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