Invoice In Lok Sabha To Proper “Error” In Medicine Regulation; Opposition Reveals Flaw
The invoice to amend NDPS Act was once offered in Lok Sabha on December 6. (Document)
New Delhi:
A invoice which seeks to rectify an anomaly within the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Ingredients (NDPS) Act was once moved for attention and passage in Lok Sabha with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing the amendments proposed handiest search to proper sure “clerical error”.
She mentioned the NDPS (Modification) Invoice, 2021, has an overly restricted objective and seeks to succeed in “not anything extra”.
BJD member Bhartruhari Mahtab hostile the invoice calling it “unlawful” and mentioned it suffers with “incongruity” and contended that the regulation can’t be amended to incorporate provisions with their “retrospective impact” in felony instances.
“You make every other mistake to proper a mistake dedicated up to now. It’ll be challenged within the court docket of regulation,” the BJD member mentioned, stressing that amending the provisions of the NDPS Act with their retrospective impact would result in “double jeopardy”.
Previous, shifting the invoice for its attention and passage within the Area, Finance Minister Sitharaman instructed individuals to improve the proposed amendments, announcing it’s been introduced handiest to proper sure “clerical error” within the regulation and “not anything extra” than that.
She additionally defended the ordinance, licensed via President Ram Nath Kovind previous in September, to rectify the mentioned error within the Act, announcing the order of a court docket necessitated adjustments within the regulation via an ordinance.
The invoice was once previous offered within the Decrease Area of Parliament on December 6.
