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Ahead of roll-out of the new criminal laws, Union Home Ministry is testing eSakhsya App
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) that replaces the Indian Penal Code, 1860; the Bharatiya Sakshya (BS) which replaces the Indian Evidence Act, 1872; and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) that replaces the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 are all set to come into force from July 1.
eSakhsya App
eSakshya (e-evidence), a mobile-phone application to help police record scene of crime, search and seizure in a criminal case and upload the file on the cloud-based platform.
The police official will have to upload a selfie after the procedure is complete.
Each recording could be maximum four minutes long and several such files could be uploaded for each First Information Report (FIR), according to the details shared with State police departments
The mobile application developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) will be available to all police stations which register and download the app
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) mandates compulsory audiovisual recording of search and seizure in each criminal case and mandatory forensic examination in all cases where an offence attracts punishment of seven years or more.
Procuring hardware and cloud space is an expensive affair and many States do not have enough resources, adding that it will also help uniformity in investigations, thereby increasing the conviction rate
If there is connectivity issue, the police can record the crime scene on their own device such as personal mobile phones and generate a hash value, come back to the police station and upload the file.
The other method is they can directly upload through eSakhsya for which good Internet speed is required
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