“Don’t give them space to breathe!” Twelve changes to criminal law in the three Bills introduced in parliament in August, 2023 will create a quantum leap in the power of the government, if and when it so wishes, to silence dissent and opposition and shut down public discourse, choking all channels that communicate conflicting news or views to the people.
The Bills, if enacted, will establish permanent extra-constitutional emergency powers in India through statutory means. Future governments are unlikely to surrender this power or revoke this extra-constitutional emergency. What makes this possible is that these new criminal laws do not reflect constitutional morality. They have no in-built constitutional constraints.
https://thewire.in/law/the-three-criminal-law-bills-using-criminal-law-to-establish-permanent-extra-constitutional-emergency-powers The first three changes discussed create new weapons for targeted, biased, political persecution (TBPP) through prosecution and incarceration against those who are deemed enemies of the ruling ideologues
02/11/2023