Not Familiar With Hindi, So Will Call IPC As IPC Only Even If It's Replaced With New Law : Madras High Court Judge
Justice Anand Venkatesh of Madras High Court recently told lawyers in his court that he would continue to call IPC, CrPC, and the Evidence Act by their original names even after they were replaced with the new acts which had Hindi names, The Hindu reported. The court was hearing a case relating to the limitation period prescribed under Section 468 of CrPC. During the discussion,...
Justice Anand Venkatesh of Madras High Court recently told lawyers in his court that he would continue to call IPC, CrPC, and the Evidence Act by their original names even after they were replaced with the new acts which had Hindi names, The Hindu reported.
The court was hearing a case relating to the limitation period prescribed under Section 468 of CrPC. During the discussion, the lawyers present in the court informed the court about the various amendments brought into the CrPC with the new Act. When the judge found the Additional Public Prosecutor struggling to pronounce the Hindi words of the new Act, the judge in a lighter vein said that he would refer to the new acts by their old name as he was not familiar with the language.
“I will refer to IPC as IPC only because I don't know that language”, the judge said.
In August last year, The Madras Bar Association also passed a resolution objecting to renaming the IPC, Evidence Act and the CrPC in Hindi. The Association has called the naming of the then bills against the provisions of the Constitution and pleaded that the English names be retained.
The three bills – Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Sanhita which proposes to replace the IPC, CrPC, and the Evidence Act respectively received the Presidential assent on December 25, 2023.