Rajasthan passes Bill that bars protest with lifeless our bodies of kins

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress administration in Rajasthan handed a invoice on Thursday, July 20, that forbids people from utilizing a member of the family’s lifeless physique for sit-in protests and stipulates a two-year jail sentence as punishment for violators.

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Amid a furor over the lawlessness in Rajasthan, the Ashok Gehlot-led Govt within the state passes the Honour of Dead Body Bill, 2023, which penalizes protests with a lifeless physique.

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The Rajasthan Honour of Dead Body Bill-2023, which was launched on Tuesday, reads that the relations who fail to take possession of a physique could also be sentenced to as much as one 12 months in jail, a high-quality, or each. Family members who use the physique for protest functions or authorise anybody else to take action can also be sentenced to as much as two years in jail and a high-quality.

Likewise, any political chief who joins or turns into a celebration to such protests can also face a jail time period of 5 years.

The Bill additionally permits police the authority to grab a physique if they’ve grounds to suspect that it will likely be utilized by an unlawful meeting or relations as a way of protest.

“Human dignity with which dwelling human being is predicted to be handled also needs to be prolonged to an individual, who’s lifeless and the best to accord respectable burial or cremation to the lifeless physique of an individual, ought to be taken to be part of the best to such dignity.

Since the incidents of remonstration for unjustified calls for are rising within the State and on this matter there aren’t any ample provisions within the present regulation, likewise, to maintain a document of unclaimed our bodies, safety of genetic knowledge info by means of DNA profiling and digitization and confidentiality of data are want of the hour,” the invoice mentioned.

Additionally, any authorised one that violates the confidentiality of any genetic knowledge shall be penalised with a high-quality and a jail sentence starting from three to 10 years.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal mentioned the federal government introduced the invoice as lifeless our bodies are used to get “unjustified demands” fulfilled and such incidents have been rising.

“Till now, there was no such act and there was no provision in regard to any other act,” Dhariwal mentioned throughout a debate on the invoice.

The House handed the Rajasthan Honour of Dead Body Bill-2023 by voice vote after the minister’s reply.

BJP slams Rajasthan Congress Govt for the draconian regulation

Leader of the opposition, Rajendra Rathore, criticised the Gehlot administration and in contrast the regulation to the Defence of India Act (DIR) and Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) that have been launched below the state of emergency.

अब राजस्थान में जनता की हक़ की लड़ाई को कुचलने के लिए क्रूर क़ानून बनाये जा रहे हैं।

अगर न्याय के लिए किसी ने शव को सड़क पर रखकर प्रदर्शन किया तो उसे 2 साल की जेल होगी, अगर नेता शामिल हुए तो 5 साल की जेल होगी… अगर शव लेने से परिजन इनकार करते हैं और एक साल की जेल होगी।

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BJP chief Amit Malviya additionally slammed the Ashok Gehlot authorities for introducing such a draconian regulation that may stifle the wrestle for human rights.  “Now cruel laws are being made in Rajasthan to crush the fight for the rights of the people. If someone protests by keeping the dead body on the road for justice, then he will be jailed for 2 years, if the leader joins, then he will be jailed for 5 years… If the family refuses to take the dead body, he will be jailed for one year. The time has come for the ‘last rites’ of the Congress government in Rajasthan,” the BJP chief tweeted.