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[00:00:10] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I am your host Vishnu and these are the major news stories of Sunday, June 30, 2024. Three new criminal laws – Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Saakshya Aadhiniyam will come into effect across India from July 1, replacing
[00:00:31] the British-era IPC, CrPC and the Indian Evidence Act, respectively. The Congress on Sunday said the parliament should pass a law to enable reservations to exceed the 50% cap, a day after NDA constituent JDU demanded that the quota increase in B Harbhi included in the ninth schedule of the constitution.
[00:00:55] A man killed by a mob in UP's Aligarh on suspicion of theft was booked along with eight people on decoyity charges following a complaint by the mother of an accused in the lynching case.
[00:01:06] French voters headed to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a snap parliamentary election that could usher in the country's first far-right government since World War II. The Kerala Access Department issued detections to strengthen surveillance around schools
[00:01:20] and the state to prevent the spread and use of drugs. Let's get into the details. Three new criminal laws will come into effect across the country from Monday, bringing widespread changes in India's criminal justice system and ending colonial-era laws.
[00:01:35] The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sarksha Adhiniyam will replace the British-era Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act respectively. The new laws will bring in a modern justice system incorporating provisions such as zero
[00:01:51] FIR, online registration of police complaints, summonses through electronic modes such as SMS and mandatory videography of crime scenes for all heinous crimes. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who piloted the laws, said the new laws would give
[00:02:04] priority to providing justice unlike the British-era laws that gave primacy to penal action. These laws are made by Indians, for Indians and by an Indian parliament and marks the end of colonial criminal justice laws, he said.
[00:02:17] Shah also said the laws were not just about changing the nomenclature but bringing about a complete overhaul. According to the new laws, judgment in criminal cases has to come within 45 days of completion of trial and charges must be framed within 60 days of first hearing.
[00:02:32] Statement of rape victims will be recorded by a female police officer in presence of a guardian or relative and medical reports have to come within seven days. Organized crimes and acts of terrorism have been defined, sedition has been replaced
[00:02:44] with treason and video recordings of all search and seizure have been made mandatory. The Congress on Sunday said Parliament should pass a law to enable reservations to exceed the 50% cap a day after NDA constituent JDU demanded that the quota increase in
[00:03:00] Bihar be included in the ninth schedule of the Constitution. At a meeting of the Janata Dal United National Executive on Saturday, the party expressed concern over a recent partner High Court verdict striking down the Bihar government's
[00:03:12] decision to increase the quota for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes to 65% from 50%. In a political resolution passed at the meet, the JDU urged the BJP-led centre to put the state's law under the Constitution's ninth schedule to rule out its judicial review.
[00:03:28] In a post to an ex-Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said throughout the Lok Sabha The opposition party has been saying that all state laws related to reservation for the SCs, STs and all backward classes should be included in the ninth schedule, as was
[00:03:42] the case with a Tamil Nadu law in 1994. A man killed by a mob in UP's Aligarh on suspicion of theft has been booked along with eight people on dacoity charges following a complaint by the mother of an accused in the lynching case, officials said on Sunday.
[00:03:57] Mohamed Farid was lynched at the Mamu Bhancha locality on the night of June 18th, which led to communal tensions in the area. Seven people were booked in the case and six were arrested. On Saturday, Lakshmi Mittal, the mother of Rahul, one of the six accused arrested
[00:04:12] in connection with the lynching case, lodged a complaint based on which an FIR was registered on the charge of dacoity. In her complaint, Mittal alleged that on the night of June 18th, Mohamed Farid, alias Aurangazeb, barged into her house and tried to molest her before looting valuables.
[00:04:27] She claimed that when her family members chased Farid, he lost balance, fell from the stairs and later died of the injuries, a police official said. However, the complaint filed by the deceased family almost two weeks ago claimed that
[00:04:38] Farid was returning home from work when he was mobbed and thrashed by some locals over suspicion of theft. French voters headed to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a snap parliamentary election that could usher in the country's first firehead government since World War
[00:04:53] II, a potential sea change at the heart of the European Union. President Emmanuel Macron stunned the country when he called the vote after his centrist alliance was crushed in European elections this month by Marine Le Pen's national rally.
[00:05:06] Her Eurosceptic anti-immigrant party was a long-term pariah but is now closer to power than it has ever been. The electoral system can make it hard to estimate the precise distribution of seats in the 577th Seat National Assembly and the final outcome will not be known until
[00:05:21] the end of voting on July 7th. In polls have suggested the national rally has a comfortable lead of 33% to 36% of the popular vote with the hastily assembled left-wing coalition the New Popular Front in second place on 28% to 31% and Macron's centrist alliance in third on 20% to 23%.
[00:05:42] The Kerala Excise Department has issued directions to strengthen surveillance around schools in the state to prevent the spread and use of drugs. The directions were issued on Saturday at a meeting of district level officers and about shared by state excise minister M.B. Rajesh. Rajesh said,
[00:06:12] The minister was quoted as saying in a release issued by the department. The minister also suggested that female excise officers receive special training for this purpose. Directions were issued to intensify the surveillance of shops within school premises.
[00:06:25] In the wake of the recent spurious liquor disaster in Kallakurichi in Tamil Nadu, the meeting also decided that special measures should also be taken in Kerala to prevent such incidents. That brings us to the end of this episode. Thanks for listening to Daily News Tours.
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