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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicBharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Topic: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

IMA welcomes lower jail term for medical negligence, but it’s fighting for total ‘decriminalisation’

Before Parliament passed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Indian Medical Association wrote to Home Minister asking for death by medical negligence to be treated as civil, not criminal, matter.

New criminal law bill passed in Lok Sabha redefines sedition & ‘terrorist act’, omits bestiality

Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita has provision criminalising printing/publishing 'any matter' concerning court proceedings in rape/sexual assault cases without prior permission.

Medical practitioners not exempt, to face reduced jail term of 2 yrs for causing death by ‘negligence’

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023, passed by Lok Sabha Wednesday, prescribes 5-yr jail term for causing death by negligence for all but registered medical practitioners.

New criminal law bill broadens definition of terrorism, now includes ‘threat to economic security’

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which has replaced IPC, also introduces life term or death sentence for mob lynching & hate-crime murders. It replaces the term mental illness with 'unsound mind'.

House panel okay with new criminal bill’s Hindi title, says retain adultery & unnatural sex sections

Eight of the 28 panel members give dissent note on Hindi title. Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita proposes changes like removing offence of sedition, defining terrorism & organised crime.

Gender-neutral adultery provision, Sec 377 on non-consensual acts: What House panel wants in penal code

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, introduced in Lok Sabha in August to replace IPC, has also sought to introduce a new provision dealing with crimes linked to mob lynching and hate.

On Camera

IndiGo cancellations made TV news do the unexpected — question the Modi government

Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami.

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.