Ajay Kumar Singh, Director General of Police, Jharkhand, has said that the new criminal laws, which came into effect in the country on July 1, will help result in higher conviction rate. 

All police officers and staff in Jharkhand have been given training on the new criminal laws and common people are being made aware about the laws, he said. At their headquarter office in Ranchi, top brass of the police are monitoring the implementation of the new laws.

A monitoring cell has been set up and police personnel are being trained. A coordination panel is working and power to implement new laws is provided to district and state level officers, said DGP Ajay Kumar Singh. 

Three new criminal laws came into effect in the country on July 1(Monday), bringing far-reaching changes in India’s criminal justice system. 

 “The importance of scientific techniques, methodical collection of evidence and forensic laboratory has increased under the new laws. Now, criminals will not get relief on the pretext of lack of evidence. I think the replaced laws will result in higher conviction rate,” PTI quotes DGP as saying.

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) take into account some of the current social realities and modern-day crimes. The new laws replaced the British-era Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, respectively. 

 Meanwhile, Jharkhand Congress has accused the BJP government at the Centre of implementing three criminal laws without adequate discussion and debate. It termed it an attempt to raise the “arbitrariness” of police.