The group has also sent urgent appeals to all members of parliament, urging them to demand continued protection of animals against sexual violence by ensuring a relevant provision is included in BNS, as has been recommended by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs (PSCOHA).
The reports were submitted by Brij Lal, Rajya Sabha MP and Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, on Friday.
"Members are informed that the next meeting of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will be held at the 6" November 2023 in Committee Room "2", PHA-Extension, New Delhi to consider and adopt the draft Reports." read the Parliament notice.
A meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will be held on 27 October in the national capital to consider and adopt the following draft reports on 'The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023', 'The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023' and 'The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill 2023'
'Ganja' and cell phones are the common contraband items that are most frequently smuggled into the prisons among others, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs raised alarm in its recent report.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended that all state governments should have a motto of "women-only prison and women-only staff” to ensure that the fundamental and basic human rights of women prisoners are not violated
The committee's recommendation comes in its 245th report on the subject ‘Prison - Conditions, Infrastructure and Reforms’. The report was summitted in both the Houses of Parliament (the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha) on Thursday.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will hear the views of domain experts on the examination of three bills, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023; and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 on September 11,12 and 13.
Eight Department–related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs) were re-constituted by Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar including the appointment of senior Congress MP P Chidambaram to the 31-member Home panel, the Upper House of Parliament said on Tuesday.