President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said that the
Indian Penal Code (IPC) requires a thorough revision so that it can meet the
needs of the 21st century.
At an event which was taking place on the occasion of
the year-long celebrations of the 155th anniversary of IPC in Kochi, Mukherjee,
the 13th and current president of said: "The IPC has undergone
very few changes in the last 155 years. Very few crimes have been added to the
initial list of crimes and declared punishable.” "Even now, there are offences in the code which
were enacted by the British to meet their colonial needs. Yet, there are many
new offences which have to be properly defined and incorporated in the code,” he
further added.
There have been strong calls for bringing either
deletion or drastic changes in Section 124 A of IPC, which deals with sedition.
These calls are coming in more vigorously after the sedition law was charged on
JNU students for allegedly raising anti-national slogans.
The 80-year-old former senior leader of Indian National
Congress (INC) concluded that the premier code for criminal law was a model
piece of legislation but it requires a "thorough revision to meet the
changing needs of the 21st century”
The IPC is the main criminal code of India. It is a
comprehensive code intended to cover all substantive aspects of criminal law.
The code was drafted in 1860 on the recommendation of the first law commission
of India established in 1834. The code has been amended several times and is
now supplemented by other criminal provisions.
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