Delhi: Bar Associations On Strike To Protest Amendment In Crpc

Delhi: Bar associations on strike to protest amendment in CrPC 1/7/2009 All bar associations in Delhi announced a day-long strike to urge the Centre to reconsider its recent decision about anti-society, anti-advocate and anti-public amendment in Criminal Procedure Code, which grant discretion to police to arrest a person accused of cognizable offence, which carries imprisonment up to seven years. Delhi Bar Association president Rajiv Khosla said ‘it is the duty of the government to enact laws that prevent crime, whereby the deterrent provision of the law of making arrest has been done away with while giving wide powers to police to arrest or release on furnishing a surety bond.’ Mr Khosla added the proposed amendment, however, will give rise to corruption in the society, for crime figures in the recent past clearly indicate that offences, punishable up to 7 years imprisonment, constitute 85 per cent of the total offences. Some members of the bar said the amendment does not make way to curb increased crime in the society as it merely proposes that reasons for arrest should be sound and recorded in writing by the police. UNI

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