Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates and lays foundation stone of several projects worth over Rs 3500 crore in Chandigarh

Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated 9 projects worth 368 crore rupees and laid the foundation stone of three projects worth 3200 crore rupees in Chandigarh yesterday. He also flagged off the fleet of Chandigarh Police cars worth 3.75 crore rupees and a state-of-the-art police control vehicle 'Eagle'.

The Home Minister also handed over appointment letters to newly recruited 700 constables and 44 ASI in Chandigarh police today and congratulated them.

Addressing the audience on this occasion, the Union Home Minister said that the vacant posts are being filled at war level till March. He said 45 constables in the sports category and 150 in IT category will be recruited in the police by March. He also inaugurated 'Center for Cyber Operation and Security' for advanced investigation of cyber crimes at a cost of approximately 90 crore rupees which has been prepared with the help of DRDO. Home Minister Amit Shah said E- beat system which was first introduced by Chandigarh Police four years back, is being used in the whole country.   

Mr Shah said there were talks of involving the youth through a hackathon to tackle different types of challenges, especially pertaining to technology, faced by the police. Today teams that attained first, second, and third position are rewarded. Through this, youths across the country will be inspired to use their knowledge to solve the problems of the country.

Home Minister said that the Cyber Operation and Security Centre (CENCOPS) has also been inaugurated today. On next day after passing of the three new criminal laws by the Parliament, the Union Home Minister reviewed implementation of the laws today at Cyber Operation and Security Centre (CENCOPS) at Chandigarh.

Amit Shah said that only yesterday, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Parliament of the country converted into law three landmark bills that will bring changes in the criminal justice system of the country. He said that the justice system of the entire country should function in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution of India. He said that our laws should prepare itself to accept the latest technologies, for this necessary infrastructure should be created with all the facilities from connectivity to hardware, so that the scheduled languages could communicate and connect with each other. 

Home Minister added that the basics of creating such a complete leakproof judicial system through which the police station, DGP office, court, jail, prosecutor's office and secretariat should be connected to each other have been laid in these laws. He said that after the full implementation of these laws, disposal of any criminal case across the country will not take more than 3 years. 

Mr Shah said that for this a lot of consultation was done with all the stakeholders and then it was sent to the standing committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs.



After considering all the suggested amendments, a complete law was drafted and presented in the Parliament.

He said that when three laws, that would bring radical changes in the criminal justice system, were being debated in the country's Parliament, the opposition members were doing the condemnable act of mimicking the Vice President. He said that many governments have come and gone in this country but the dignity of constitutional posts has always been maintained.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation said that by December 2024, the work of infrastructure, software, training of human resources, and complete computerization of courts will be done for implementation of these three laws in all the Union Territories. He said that the Modi government has already started this work through CCTNS and ICJS. Mr Shah said that a detailed time-bound program will be made to prepare Chandigarh for full implementation of these laws. 

He said that a time-bound program will be prepared to implement the definition of terrorism and organized crime, a form of Directorate of Prosecution, giving stability to forensics and filling loopholes in ICJS and CCTNS. He said that meetings in all Union Territories will be held before January 31, 2024 to fully prepare them by December 22, 2024, to implement these laws.

He said that even before implementing these laws, the Modi government had already completed the work of connecting 99.93 percent police stations, 16,733 police stations, of the country online and they are functioning with a single software. Home Minister added that 22 thousand courts of the country have become e-courts, data of 2 crore prisoners of the country are online through e-prisons, data of more than 1 crore prosecutions are online through e-prosecution, and 17 lakh forensic details are also online through e-forensics. 

Mr Shah said that along with this, more than 90 lakh fingerprint data, Integrated Monitoring of Terrorism (iMOT), data of arrested narco offenders, data from National Database of Human Trafficking Offenders are available online. Besides, by linking the Crime Multiagency Center with it, the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal and biometric data of prisoners have also been prepared. After this, the task is to decide the language of communication between them, bring communication software, and analyze it using artificial intelligence to crack down on terrorism and crime in the country.

Home Minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, India is committed to running its criminal justice system with Indian thought. He said that India's criminal justice system is also ready to jump straight from the 19th century into the 21st century. Mr Shah said that after the implementation of these laws, our criminal justice system will become the most modern criminal justice system in the world.