Sunday, January 18, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
farmer's suicides in rich maharashtra is shameful -p.sainath- deshonnati reports
p.sainath detail interview on vidarbha farmers suicides published by
daily-deshonnati,yavatmal.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Amended CrPC-VJAS asked for national debate
Amended CrPC to clips cops’ wings to arrest Homicide, Kidnapping Accused , It's freedom to criminals at the cost innocent victims -VJAS asked for national debate
Law and order after amended CrPC
7-YR PROVISION: Police, instead of arresting an accused, will be obliged to issue him a ‘notice of appearance’ for any offence punishable with jail term up to seven years
OBJECTION: Bar associations argue that doing away with mandatory arrest provisions would remove criminals’ fear
POWER: The amendment allows the police to arrest without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant a person who commits a cognizable offence ‘in the presence of a police officer’
OBJECTION: Bar associations argue that doing away with mandatory arrest provisions would remove criminals’ fear
POWER: The amendment allows the police to arrest without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant a person who commits a cognizable offence ‘in the presence of a police officer’
Nagpur -Dated-19th Jan.
VJAS urged for national debate over recently-revamped Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which divests police of arrest powers in cases where the maximum sentence is up to seven years, became law with President Pratibha Patil finally giving her assent last week.The presidential assent, which came nearly three weeks after the bill was sent to her after getting it passed from Parliament, has now paved the way for the government to notify it.
Once the law, CrPC (Amendment) Act 2008, becomes effective, the police, instead of arresting the accused, will be obliged to issue him/her a “notice of appearance’’ for any offence punishable with imprisonment up to seven years. The person can be arrested only if he/she does not appear before the police in response to the notice. Seven years or less is the maximum penalty for a host of offences, including attempt to commit culpable homicide, robbery, attempt to suicide, kidnapping, voluntarily causing grievous hurt, cheating, outraging a woman’s modesty and death caused by negligence.
The radical change in the CrPC has, however, drawn flak from a number of Bar associations across the country. Lawyers—who also observed strike in various courts after the bill was passed in Parliament—argue that the amendment (in Section 41) doing away with mandatory arrest provisions would remove fear from the minds of criminals who would misuse the provisions under the garb of personal liberty.
Under Section 41, as it originally stood, a police officer may, without an order of a magistrate and without a warrant, arrest any person who has been concerned in any cognizabale offence.
Some chief ministers had also voiced concerns on the amendment during a conference on internal security here on January 6.
After the amendment in the CrPC allows the police to arrest without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant a person who commits a cognizable offence “in the presence of a police officer’’. It also enables arrest of “a person who has committed a cognizable offence (punishable for a term which may be less than seven years or extend up to seven years) if there is a reasonable complaint or credible information or a reasonable suspicion and the police officer is satisfied that such arrest is necessary for proper investigation of the offence or for preventing tampering with the evidence’’.
The only additional requirement in such cases is that the police officer will have “to record his reasons’’ for making the arrest.
Now Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which divests police of arrest powers in cases where the maximum sentence is up to seven years, became law with President Pratibha Patil finally giving her assent is ridiculous but till the debate is needed by human activists as we are not convinced the provision of amendments in Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and many us is of the opinion that criminal will use the liberty at the cost victimasation innocent victims hence it's time for parliament to repel the said amendment in CRPC.
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Yours faithfully,
For VIDARBHA JAN ANDOLAN SAMlTI
KISHORE TIWARI
PRESIDENT
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Govt's loan waiver fails to rescue Vidarbha farmers
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The government's approach to the issue of farmer suicides is under the scanner once again. Ironically, this time the authority implementing the Rs 60,000-crore loan-waiver package has found that after loan waiver, the number of suicides have not gone down as much as expected.
The agrarian crisis in Vidarbha's cotton country shows little signs of abating despite what the government has called special efforts. Latest figures show that the number of farmer suicides have not reduced as expected during the period 2007-08, since the loan waiver was announced. The figures have come from the very agency authorised by the government to implement the loan-waiver package. Its study showed that the single biggest factor driving farmers to suicide continues to be loan burden. The results of a government survey in May, in which over 12 lakh farmers from nearly 18 lakh respondents, spoke of distress due to indebtedness. Experts studying this issue say they are not surprised by the findings at all. "Not all the funds meant for farmers is necessarily going to Vidarbha alone. Also even in that case those getting access to the waiver or the benefits are not necessarily the most needy," said Dr S Parsuram, director, TISS. Much criticism has come the government's way in the past over its handling of farmer suicides. But these latest statistics many are hoping will lead to a hardthink, on change of intervention strategies or at least in the way they are implemented. |
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