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Catch Up (2024) 1st July v1
This is the Catch Up on 3 Things for the Indian Express and I'm Shashank Bhargava.
It’s the 1st of July and here are today's headlines.
Three new criminal laws will come into effect today. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), passed in Parliament last December, will replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860, the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 respectively.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said during the new laws’ passage in Parliament, the sanhitas represented laws that had been framed by Indians, for Indians.
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s first speech in the 18th Lok Sabha led to pandemonium in the Lower House. The LoP responding to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address gestured to the Treasury Bench and said that “those who call themselves Hindus talk about violence”. The Hinduism remark triggered an uproar in the Lower House with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah intervening. The BJP has demanded an apology from him.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) gave its consent to jailed Kashmir leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, for him to take oath as an MP on 5th of July. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh will pass an order on the interim bail plea of Rashid, who is lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi in a 2017 terror funding case on Tuesday. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh will on Tuesday pass an order on the interim bail plea of Rashid, who is lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi in a 2017 terror funding case.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal moved the Delhi High Court today challenging his arrest in the alleged corruption case related to the now scrapped excise policy, and the trial court’s 26th of June order by which he was remanded to three-day CBI custody. On 29th of June, the trial court sent Arvind Kejriwal to judicial custody until July 12 as his three-day Central Bureau of Investigation custody ended in the excise policy case. After he was questioned by the central agency in Tihar Jail in the linked corruption case, the court sent Kejriwal to a three-day CBI custody the next day.
Russian forces have taken over the villages of Spirne and Novooleksandrivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday. The ministry, in a brief statement on the Telegram messaging app, said its forces have also improved their positions along the frontline around the villages. Ukraine's General Staff said in its daily statement on the situation on the battlefield that "heavy fighting" was taking place in the area around the villages.
This was the Catch-Up on the 3 Things by The Indian Express.
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