Union Cabinet approves creation of 22nd Law Commission
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the constitution of the 22nd Law Commission which advises the government on complex legal issues.
The term of the previous law panel had ended on August 31 last year.
With the cabinet approval, the law ministry will now notify the new panel, which will have a term of three years.
The panel will have a full-time chairperson, four full-time members (including a member secretary), and law and legislative secretaries in the law ministry as ex-officio members.
"It will also have not more than five part-time members," an official statement said.
Usually, a retired Supreme Court judge or chief justice of a high court heads the Commission.
The Commission was originally constituted in 1955 and is re-constituted every three years.
The various law commissions have so far submitted 277 reports.
The 21st Law Commission, under Justice B S Chauhan (retd), had submitted reports and working papers on key issues such as simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies and a uniform civil code. While this Commission had supported simultaneous polls, it had said time was not ripe for a common code.
In 2015, a proposal was mooted to make the law panel into a permanent body either through an Act of Parliament or an executive order (resolution of the Union Cabinet). The move was, however, shelved after the Prime Minister's Office felt that the present system should continue.
In 2010 too, the then UPA government had prepared a draft cabinet note to give statutory status to the Law Commission and the law ministry had mooted to bring the Law Commission of India Bill, 2010. But the idea was again shelved.
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Decomposed body of police constable found inside police quarters in Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Mar 17 (PTI): A decomposed body of a 29-year-old police constable was discovered inside his room at the Adugodi Police Quarters here on Monday.
Mubarak Mujavar from Belagavi, was posted with the City Armed Reserve (CAR) unit of the Bengaluru police, according to police.
Police suspect it to be a case of suicide and said it appeared to have been decomposing for nearly a month.
Mujavar’s decomposed body was found hanging inside his room at the police quarters this morning after a foul smell emanated from the room, a senior police officer said.
His wife is in Athani in Belagavi for delivery as the couple was expecting a child, he said.
The body has been sent for autopsy. No foul play has been suspected yet and an Unnautral Death Report (UDR) was registered, police said.
