The controversial bill of Rajasthan has been sent to a select committee of the Assembly.
On October 23rd Rajasthan government tabled a controversial bill that seeks to protect public servants and judges from prosecution and to bar the media from reporting on allegations against them without its prior sanction, sparking legal challenges and protests across the country.
Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje reportedly asked the state ministers to rethink over the Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Ordinance, 2017. Raje had called a meeting at her residence, which was attended by Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria, Rajendra Rathore, BJP State President Ashok Parnami, Yunus Khan and Arun Chaturvedi to form a committee to review their bill. Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria is to head the Select Committee comprising of15 members.
The Centre has defended the bill with Union Minister for law and justice PP Chaudhury saying it was a ‘balanced’ measure keeping the interests of everyone in mind.
Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot said that the party will not let the government pass the bill. “We are strongly opposing it.”
The state government while defending the bill said that the bill was required to put an end to frivolous litigations against public servants.
The only aim of the ordinance is that people do not misuse section 156(3) of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to tarnish the image of honest officers by leveling baseless allegations, according to Kataria. From 2013 to 2017, 73 % of the people who were probed under section 156(3) CrPC faced mental harassment although they were not guilty, he said.
Pilot told reporters today that the ordinance was promulgated as the chief minister feared that she might be in trouble due to corruption.
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