It further urged the top court to direct the central government to ascertain the feasibility of implementing a stringent and comprehensive IPC (One Nation One Penal Code), instead of the current "outdated" laws on crime and corruption. It also called for specific chapters on bribery, money laundering, black money, profiteering, adulteration, hoarding, black marketing, drug smuggling, gold smuggling and human trafficking to be included in the proposed "One Nation One Penal Code." being pan-India offences, laws related to these are not included in the existing IPC. The development comes at a time when the Supreme Court has questioned the Centre over the misuse of the "colonial" sedition law. Section 124(A) of the IPC has laws related to sedition.

Source: Hindustan Times July 17, 2021 13:53 UTC