Need To Drive Criminal Law Forward With Data And Evidence, Hope Young Lawyers Will Willingly Join The Field: CJI Sanjiv Khanna

Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday said that he hopes many youngsters and young lawyers would join the field of criminal law as their first career choice and not as a second choice or compulsion. We should not therefore ignore the importance of criminal law, and I hope in trust that many youngsters, including lawyers will gradually join criminal law as the first choice, rather than as a second or compulsion.” The judge was speaking at the launch of “Ratanlal & Dhirajlal's Law of Crimes: A Comprehensive Commentary on Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023” edited by former Chief Justice of India, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit. What we need to do is to let evidence drive the criminal law forward.” Emphasizing that criminal law directly impacts the fundamental balance between state power and personal liberty, Chief Justice of India, Justice Sanjiv Khanna on Thursday said that he hopes many youngsters and young lawyers to join the field of criminal law as the first choice and not as a second choice or compulsion. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal in his address congratulated Justice UU Lalit for the commentaries and said that in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governance, citizens of India have got “nyaya” in the form of the new BNS, 2023, replacing the old Indian Penal Code, 1860.