Deion Byrd would have turned 26 years old on Jan. 31. His father, Marcus Byrd, told HuffPost that Deion usually spent his birthdays with his family, watching television and eating some of his mother’s cooking at their home in Memphis, Tennessee. “He liked joking and things like that,” Marcus said. “He wanted to rap and … Read more
The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023, (BNS 2023), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS, 2023), and the Bharatiya Sakshya (Second) Adhiniyam, 2023, (BSA, 2023) to replace the the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860; the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 were passed by Parliament in the Winter … Read more
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary committee has noted that the seven years’ imprisonment prescribed in the proposed new criminal law for causing death by negligence is “high” and it should be reduced to five years. The parliamentary standing committee on home affairs, headed by BJP MP Brijlal, also observed that the 10-year jail suggested in the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary standing committee examining the three criminal justice bills on Monday adopted its draft report with recommendations that may include bringing back a provision on the lines of Section 377 of the IPC in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) to make non-consensual sex between same-sex adults an offence and also criminalising adultery … Read more
An Alameda County report two years in the making has outlined a series of recommendations that would lead to a comprehensive overhaul of the county’s criminal justice system — if it makes it that far. The 248-page report, titled “Reimagine Adult Justice,” would do just that. The recommendations, presented at a committee meeting on Thursday, aim … Read more