AILU calls upon advocates to make South India Advocates’ Conference a grand success

All India Lawyers’ Union (AILU) national working president S. Rajendra Prasad on Saturday called upon the advocates in Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) attending the South India Advocates’ Conference being held in Chennai on November 17 (Sunday) to register their protest against the new criminal laws, to make a grand success by attending in large numbers.

He said in a press release that the conference was being organised by the Joint Advocates Association Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry demanding that the implementation of laws such as Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (previously Indian Penal Code of 1860), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973) and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (Indian Evidence Act, 1872) should be stopped.

These new laws were curtailing the powers of the judiciary, thereby affecting its autonomy, and sought to vest unbridled powers with the police. Besides, the laws were bound to deprive the people of their Constitutional rights. 

Published - November 16, 2024 06:38 pm IST