Parliamentary Committee: 7-year jail for causing death by negligence high, says parliamentary panel

Parliamentary Committee: 7-year jail for causing death by negligence high, says parliamentary panel

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