A 7-day online Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on changing dimensions of crime and criminal justice in India concluded successfully yesterday.
The FDP was inaugurated by Prof Sanjeev P Sahni, Advisor to VC, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He stressed on the criminal psychology and discussed different traits of a person that pulls a person to the crime. He also talked about the behavioral aspect of crime. This session was moderated by Prof Renu Pal Sood.
Prof. Akshat Mehta, Dean, Police Administration, Rastriya Raksha University, Gujarat and Ms. Bindu Rani Sachdeva, DIG, Principal, Central Detective Training Institute, Chandigarh extended the knowledge on the topic of Need for Police Reform for Effective Pre-trial Investigation of Crime emphasising on the supremacy of Rule of Law, various commission’s recommendation for the need for police reforms and for the improvement of the criminal justice systems, also mentioning the different role of Police personals from the investigation, prevention to detention and impediments faced by the police personals during the investigation. It was stressed by the speakers for a shift from ruler-oriented to rule-oriented police system. The session was moderated by Ms. Anupriya Thakur, Assistant professor School of Law, Shoolini University.
While Interacting in the session Mr. Sandeep Dhawal, SP Cyber Crime, H.P shared his practical experiences from the field, that how the investigation in the cyber cases is conducted and also shared the data about the pre and post pandemic. Professor Dr. Sanjay Sindhu, The director at H.P Institute of Legal Studies highlighted the urgent need of making the provisions under IPC with the Information Technology Act. The session was moderated by Ms Monika Thakur.
In another session Prof Mohammad Tariq, Professor of Law at AMU, Aligarh gave insight into privacy laws in India and its correlation with criminal justice system. Sh BL Soni also discussed the principle of evidence and its role in a criminal trial. Dr. C M Gupta was the moderator of this session.
Prof Shruti Bedi, Professor at Panjab university, Chandigarh and Adv Dr Deepak Jindal, Advocate Punjab and Haryana High Court. Both the speakers highlighted the problem of pendency of Criminal litigation during pandemic. A total 67,279 cases are pending with the Supreme Court of India and whopping 57.53 Lakhs in High Courts. Subordinate courts are sitting on 3.81 Crore cases. The session was moderated by Ms Swati Soni.
Prof Balram K Gupta, Director, Judicial Academy Chandigarh and Prof Kamaljeet Singh, Vice Chancellor, MLU Cuttack was present in the valedictory and gave valuable insights in the light of Supreme Court judgements. Prof P K Khosla, Chancellor Shoolini University and Prof Atul Khosla, Vice Chancellor, Shoolini University was the chief guests for valedictory and thanked the speakers and various resource persons of the FDP.
Convener of the FDP Prof (Dr.) Nandan Sharma informed that about 70 academicians from reputed Universities, participated in FDP .The FDP was conducted with an objective to delve, deliberate and to generate awareness amongst teaching professionals, he also thanked his team for the successful completion of the FDP.
