Jammu Tawi, November 21 (KIP):- Fresh exercise is being carried out to
review laws that have become redundant. And those laws that are seen
as redundant may be scrapped.
Official sources said that this was done to hasten the process
of legal decisions. It has been seen that several hundred cases have
been pending in various courts for decades because of legal
complications. In order to remove these complications a fresh review
was being undertaken to weed out laws that came in the way of speedy
justice.
Sources said that for this a new commission was being set up
and experts in legal matters and prosecution were to be its members.
An officer of the Legal Department said that even the prosecution gets
delayed because of some laws which could be redundant.
Well for scrapping some of the laws the approval of the
state legislature was necessary because some of the central laws have
been extended to the state of Jammu and Kashmir only after the
approval given by the state legislature. Under Article 370 no central
law adopted by the parliament can be made applicable to Jammu and
Kashmir without the approval of the state legislature.(KIP)
