Parliamentary Year Book - Parliamentary committee wants govt to review Piracy Bill
A parliamentary Committee has recommended that the Government should review a clause in the Act of piracy that seeks to provide for the award of the penalty of death to the sea - bandits.
In his report on the draft law of piracy, 2012, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by the BJP MP Ananth Kumar, noted that the clause of the sentence of death in the proposed legislation must be controlled to avoid hassles to get the foreign pirates extradited to the India.
The Government introduced the Bill of piracy in Lok Sabha, on April 24, to establish a legal framework to prosecute pirates caught by the coast guard, whatever their nationality or of the Indian Navy.
""Article 3 of the piracy Bill said that anyone who commits an act of piracy “is liable to a penalty of life imprisonment, except when the accused caused the death in the perpetration of the Act of hacking or attempt thereof in this case, it can be punished by death".
The Committee recommended that the Government should review the clause. "There is an apparent commitment to the issue of the extradition of captured pirates in foreign countries in most of the cases," he noted in his report.
"The Committee is of the opinion that the provision for the death penalty may be examined in light of international crime nature and the participation of international actors and the previous experience of the Government of the India being faced with refusals to extradite the accused and criminals, given the existence of the"death penalty “clause in Indian law”. the Commission stated in its report to the Lok Sabha.
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A parliamentary Committee has recommended that the Government should review a clause in the Act of piracy that seeks to provide for the award of the penalty of death to the sea - bandits.
In his report on the draft law of piracy, 2012, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by the BJP MP Ananth Kumar, noted that the clause of the sentence of death in the proposed legislation must be controlled to avoid hassles to get the foreign pirates extradited to the India.
The Government introduced the Bill of piracy in Lok Sabha, on April 24, to establish a legal framework to prosecute pirates caught by the coast guard, whatever their nationality or of the Indian Navy.
""Article 3 of the piracy Bill said that anyone who commits an act of piracy “is liable to a penalty of life imprisonment, except when the accused caused the death in the perpetration of the Act of hacking or attempt thereof in this case, it can be punished by death".
The Committee recommended that the Government should review the clause. "There is an apparent commitment to the issue of the extradition of captured pirates in foreign countries in most of the cases," he noted in his report.
"The Committee is of the opinion that the provision for the death penalty may be examined in light of international crime nature and the participation of international actors and the previous experience of the Government of the India being faced with refusals to extradite the accused and criminals, given the existence of the"death penalty “clause in Indian law”. the Commission stated in its report to the Lok Sabha.
Source By : http://www.deccanherald.com/content/271978/parliamentary-committee-wants-govt-review.html
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