{"id":57544,"date":"2023-08-14T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/14\/india-laws-protecting-women-review-penal-code"},"modified":"2023-08-14T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:54:41","slug":"india-to-revise-colonial-era-penal-code-and-toughen-laws-protecting-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57544","title":{"rendered":"India to revise colonial-era penal code and toughen laws protecting women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home minister promises widespread reforms but some experts suggest the new laws are more a repackaging of existing measures than real change<\/p>\n<p>More than 160 years after Lord Macaulay laid down a penal code for what was then a colony of the British crown, India is poised to supplant it with new laws free of colonial vestiges and designed to speed up the judicial process.<\/p>\n<p>The government has introduced three bills in parliament that it says will provide a special focus on crimes against women and address the intolerable delays in the system which can leave people waiting 15-30 years for a verdict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/14\/india-laws-protecting-women-review-penal-code\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home minister promises widespread reforms but some experts suggest the new laws are more a repackaging of existing measures than real changeMore than 160 years after Lord Macaulay laid down a penal code for what was then a colony of the British crown, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57545,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57544\/revisions\/57545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}