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Navigating India's Penal Code Reforms

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Three new Penal codes seek to modernise India's current legal framework for criminal law. They aim to overhaul and reform the criminal justice system in India -

  1. The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) will replace the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.
  2. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) will replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) .
  3. The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) will replace the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC).

This course by Prof. G S Bajpai and Mr Sanjay Vashishtha explains the changes brought about by the BNS, BNSS and BSA. The course provides an overview of how these new codes transform the substantive and procedural criminal law.

  • Significance, Core Objectives and Implementation of Penal Code Reforms
    • ▸ Prof G.S. Bajpai in conversation with Nikita Anand
  • 1. 📕 Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
    • 1.1 ▸ Introduction: Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
    • 1.2 ▸ Definitions
    • 1.3 ▸ Relevancy of facts
    • 1.4 ▸ Facts which need not be proved
    • 1.5 ▸ Documentary evidence
    • 1.6 ▸ Examination of witnesses
    • ☆ Feedback
  • 2. 📕 The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
    • 2.1 ▸ Introduction: Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023
    • 2.2 ▸ Significant changes made to the Act
  • 3. 📕 The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
    • 3.1 ▸ Introduction: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023
    • 3.2 ▸ Definitions and general explanations
    • 3.3 ▸ Punishments
    • 3.4 ▸ General exceptions
    • 3.5 ▸ Offences against woman and child
    • 3.6 ▸ Offences affecting human body
    • ☆ Feedback

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Prof GS Bajpai

Vice Chancellor, National Law University, Delhi

Prof Bajpai has 30+ years of experience as an Author, Researcher, Teacher and Administrator. He served as a Convener of 'Committee for Reforms in Criminal Law' and recommended the reforms for the new Penal codes to the Parliamentary Committee. He is currently the Vice Chancellor at National Law University, Delhi.

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Sanjay Vashishtha

Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Sanjay Vashishtha, an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and the revising author of Ahmad Siddique’s ‘Criminology, Penology and Victimology’. He served as a Consultant to the 'Committee for Reforms in Criminal Law' and recommended the reforms for the new Penal codes to the Parliamentary Committee.

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Presented by: Nikita Anand

Legal Editor & EBC Learning Evangelist

Nikita is a lawyer with 10 years of experience and a legal ed-tech enthusiast. An alumnus of NLIU, Bhopal. She is founding partner at Magnus Legal Services LLP, a leading law firm in New Delhi. Previously, she has worked with Clifford Chance Business Services and Rakshak Foundation.

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