Primer on New Criminal Laws (NCL)

The colonial Indian criminal law continued in the post Independent era. Since 1950, when India got her own Constitution, the constitutional inferences on the working of the criminal laws became apparent. The Constitutional foundations of the criminal laws have shaped the boundaries of the administration of criminal justice. The New Criminal Laws viz. Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 have replaced the colonial laws from 1st July 2024. The primer on New Criminal Laws takes the learners through the process of reforms in the century old criminal laws of the country. It covers all three laws and in total has 20 modules. The modules provide detailed information about addition and deletion of offences, change in the punishment regime, newly introduced processes in the crime reporting & investigation, introduction of timeline & technology in the processes and procedures, victim centric reforms, electronic evidence related reforms among others.