Kolkata:
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose criticised the Mamata Banerjee administration for “failing to ship” the technical report together with a just lately handed anti-rape Invoice which is important for giving assent to it, an official mentioned.
Mr Bose was very disenchanted because it has been an everyday apply of the state to not ship technical stories together with Payments after which blaming the governor’s workplace for not clearing them, he claimed.
“The governor criticised the state administration for failing to connect the technical report together with the Aparajita Invoice. As per rule, it’s obligatory for the state authorities to ship the technical report earlier than a choice is taken on giving assent to the Invoice,” the Raj Bhavan official advised PTI on Thursday.
“This isn’t the primary time that the federal government has withheld technical stories and blamed the Raj Bhavan for not clearing Payments,” he added.
The governor additionally admonished the state authorities for failing to do homework on vital issues reminiscent of this.
“Mr Bose has identified that the (Aparajita) Invoice seems to be a copy-paste of comparable Payments handed by Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh,” he mentioned.
The supply mentioned that the governor expressed his opinion that Ms Banerjee was threatening a dharna “solely to hoodwink the individuals of West Bengal as she can also be absolutely properly conscious that related Payments are pending with the President of India”.
The West Bengal Meeting on September 3 unanimously handed the ‘Aparajita Girl and Baby Invoice (West Bengal Felony Legal guidelines and Modification) Invoice 2024’ that seeks capital punishment for rape convicts if their actions outcome within the sufferer’s demise or depart her in a vegetative state and life sentence with out parole for different perpetrators.
Different important options of the proposed laws embrace the completion of probes into rape instances inside 21 days of the preliminary report, a discount from the earlier two-month deadline, and a particular activity drive the place ladies officers will lead investigations.
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