GANDHINAGAR: The Centre will strive to ensure that all undertrials who have served one-third of the maximum sentence for the offence they are charged with receive justice before Constitution Day is celebrated, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday. The adoption of the Constitution is commemorated on November 26.
Shah said, “We have put in place 60 provisions for the court, the prosecution and police to complete their work within a time limit. We have also made provision for jails so that if a trial is not going on after a certain period, then – except for non-serious crimes – the jail officer will have to present the bail process inside the court.”
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It is our effort that before Constitution Day, there should not be a single prisoner in the country’s jails who has served one-third of his sentence and has not yet got justice. A lot of work has gone in to make police accountable and a lot has been done to give strength to police,” Shah said at 50th All India Police Science Conference.
The home minister also said India and the world face the challenges of cybercrime, infiltration, illegal use of drones, narcotics and misuse of the dark web, and India will have to take the lead in finding solutions to these challenges. He added that law enforcement agencies will have to stay a step ahead of criminals in these five areas.
“These five areas will be a challenge not just for India but for the whole world,” Shah told about 250 delegates at the conference, organised by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).
He said AIPSC should work towards analysing data to bring about changes in the system to reduce crime, its investigation and speedy justice. “AIPSC needs to use AI to make data result-oriented and more effective,” Shah said.
Commenting on three new criminal laws that were passed earlier this year, Shah said the home ministry made extensive preparations before implementing the three new laws. “Following their implementation, justice will be delivered to people from SC level within three years from the date of registration of a first information report (FIR),” Shah added.
He said 70,000 police stations were connected to CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems), 22,000 courts through e-courts, data of 2 crore prisoners is stored in e-prisons system and that of over 1.5 crore prosecution in e-prosecution system, more than 23 lakh forensic data in e-forensic, among other things.