IndiaNewsWatchBharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Decolonising or Reinforcing Colonial Ideas?
This piece focuses on the BNS, meant to replace the IPC. It analyses how the bill falls short of its stated goal of decolonisation. Anushka Pandey, Preeti Pratishruti Dash, and Mrinal Satish argue that the BNS expands powers of the state and the police, retains offences grounded in archaic morality, and widens the punitive network through broad and vaguely defined offences.
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https://www.nls.ac.in/blog/bharatiya-nyaya-sanhita-decolonising-or-reinforcing-colonial-ideas/
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Decolonising or Reinforcing Colonial Ideas? - National Law School of India University
In December 2023, the Indian Parliament enacted three new criminal codes—the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (‘BNS’), the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (‘BNSS’) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (‘BSA’)—to replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’), the...
