PIL is SC seeks ‘comprehensive’, ‘stringent’ law to replace colonial era IPC

The PIL further sought a direction to the Centre to ascertain the feasibility of implementing a stringent and comprehensive IPC instead of existing outdated laws relating to corruption and crime

A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to set a judicial panel or a body of experts to draft a “comprehensive” and “stringent” penal code for ensuring rule of law and equality and after examining existing statutes, including Indian Penal Code of 1860, relating to crime and corruption. The plea, filed by lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, alternatively urged the top court that it being “custodian of the Constitution and protector of fundamental rights” may direct the Law Commission India to examine “domestic and internal laws relating to corruption and crime and draft a stringent comprehensive Indian Penal Code within six months”. “Direct the Centre to constitute a judicial commission or an expert committee to examine all domestic-internal laws relating to corruption-crime and draft a comprehensive stringent ‘one nation one penal code’ in order to secure rule of law, equality before law and equal protection of laws,” the PIL, filed through advocate Ashwani Dubey, said.