Bihar government's home department has become the initiator of a trailblazing move in the country - "Civil consequences of crime." According to this initiative a person convicted of a crime in Bihar, whose appeal the Court has rejected will be ineligible for various amenities and his crime will shadow him for the rest of his life. These persons will be ineligible for, among other facilities, contracts, government jobs, passport, holding offices in NGOS, licences for arms, and with respect to seeking loan, the related information has to be provided.
As per this initiative, details of person with abovementioned qualification such as name, address, crimes, conviction, and sentence will be displayed on Bihar's home department website launched on Sunday by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
According to DGP Abhayanand, usually convicted persons hide their conviction details while seeking licence or job or contract and avail of afore mentioned amenities, however after uploading of the person's details, the person cannot cover up such details anymore and private companies as well as government departments can check the website towards verifying the person's details.
The initiative has objective of furthering rule of law as well as checking crime. And already records obtained from jails nearing 1,450 have been uploaded with more to follow.
As per this initiative, details of person with abovementioned qualification such as name, address, crimes, conviction, and sentence will be displayed on Bihar's home department website launched on Sunday by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
According to DGP Abhayanand, usually convicted persons hide their conviction details while seeking licence or job or contract and avail of afore mentioned amenities, however after uploading of the person's details, the person cannot cover up such details anymore and private companies as well as government departments can check the website towards verifying the person's details.
The initiative has objective of furthering rule of law as well as checking crime. And already records obtained from jails nearing 1,450 have been uploaded with more to follow.
is anyone exempted in this. what about politicians, judges, police etc who are having criminal antecedents. wat about innocent alleged of false cases.
ReplyDeleteWhy should anyone be exempted, after all it is rule of law and no one is above the law. However, that being said, there might be exemptions (not sure about this) but even those exemptions will be legally valid only if granted as per due process of law, especially in the case of politicians who are holding office, judges, police officers et cetera. And with regard to an innocent party alleged to have committed crime falsely, well, the civil consequences of crime have been expressly made applicable only to persons "convicted" of the crime and not to persons who were only alleged to have committed a crime.
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