New Delhi, July 27 The Union Home Ministry is making its first, tenuous move in drafting a new law for combating communal violence. This follows the CMP commitment for enactment of a ‘‘comprehensive law’’ against communal violence which will provide for investigations by a Central agency, prosecution by special courts and payment of uniform compensation to victims.
Union Home Secretary Dhirender Singh told The Indian Express that besides the repeal of POTA, the other task assigned to his Ministry in the CMP was drafting such a law. He said he was beginning to collect feedback on what the broad parameters of the law should be. ‘‘We will be going into the entire gamut... we may prepare a discussion paper on the law,’’ Singh said, adding that he had held informal discussions with senior lawyers. ‘‘It is difficult to talk about the time-frame yet but we will not take years to draft it.’’ In his reaction, former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee said the proposal was a ‘‘very good’’ one. He added: ‘‘The new law should be reasonable and not have provisions which are excessive.’’
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