Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena conducted a review meeting on the implementation of three new criminal legislations in the national capital, stressing a collaborative and streamlined approach to ensure justice and transparency across all departments.
Delhi Home Minister Kailash Gahlot attended the meeting, while Law Minister Atishi was absent due to a family medical emergency. LG Saxena instructed officials to set specific timelines for ongoing projects related to the new laws.
The discussions in the meeting included training health department nodal officers for the MedLEaPR portal, with all central government hospitals in Delhi now onboarded with the portal. MedLEaPR is a web-based reporting system to capture the Medico-Legal Report (MLR) and Post-Mortem Report (PMR) for the Directorate of Health Services in Delhi. A total of 186 Delhi government and 32 Central government doctors are registered, generating 81 reports on the portal.
The meeting also covered the procurement of mobile forensic vans, infrastructure for video conferencing in all 691 courts in Delhi, and the filling of 165 junior scientific assistant vacancies at crime scenes, with a target completion date of September 21.
Besides, recruitment rules for vacant posts in the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and Directorate of Prosecutions were discussed, along with plans for a new building for the Directorate.
The three legislations — Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) — which replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and Indian Evidence Act, have been in effect since July 1.
Article source: indiatoday.in
