Thread by @tarunkhaitan

Ran plagiarism checks on Turnitin against the official repository of existing laws :

83% of #BharatiyaNyayaSanhita, it seems, is lifted from Indian Penal Code. You can download turnitin report (with cut-pasted text in red) here: https://t.co/oyEAOPDYvX https://t.co/qlcxdwwvOSindiacode.nic.in
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Plagiarism check using Turnitin against the official repository of existing laws :
82% of #NagarikSurakshaSanhita, it seems, is lifted from Criminal Procedure Code. You can download turnitin report (with cut-pasted text in red) here: https://t.co/ZnNWnCIlaE https://t.co/6mc9tmeyOWindiacode.nic.in
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Ran plagiarism checks on Turnitin against the official repository of existing laws :

82% of #BharatiyaSakshyaBill, it seems, is lifted from Indian Evidence Act. You can download turnitin report (with cut-pasted text in red) here: https://t.co/fpfmOs9wT3 https://t.co/DX2cdbWBnvindiacode.nic.in
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Similarity with earlier laws is not an issue in itself. Path-dependencies require us to work with what we have. But this is a thoroughly superficial 'decolonisation' exercise which manages only a few substantive changes, many of which worse than what the colonial state inflicted.

There is nothing here a simple amendment act can not achieve, except perhaps the pretense of decolonisation. And much chaos to the criminal justice system—caused by shoddy drafting, typos, & unnecessary number changes—would be avoided.