Home Comittee raps Home Ministry over renewed arms policy

[ebenezer]

The Parliamentary panel came down heavily on the Ministry of Home Affairs as well as the Home Minister for making the draft policy document public before laying it in Parliament. "The Committee deprecates this attitude of the Ministry of Home Affairs in general and Home Minister in particular in ignoring a six-decades-old Parliamentary practice and convention of first laying policy documents in Parliament and then making them public," it said. "It is a well established parliamentary practice that Ministers make statements in the House in order to keep the House informed of matters of public importance or to apprise the House about Government policy in regard to a matter of topical interest at the earliest opportunity," the panel said. The policies were aimed at bringing changes in certain procedures for acquisition and possession of firearms by individuals, police verification before grant of arms licences, quantity of ammunition permitted under various categories, renewal of arms licences, sale of ordinary weapons and for maintaining database for licences issued among other amendments. Terming the course of action adopted by the MHA as "ab initio faulty ", the Committee asked the government to bring a comprehensive Bill to amend the principal legislation after due examination. "Keeping in view the wide ranging implications of the New Policy on the law abiding citizens and its enforcement, mostly through executive fiat, the Committee recommends to the Ministry of Home Affairs that they should put on hold the whole exercise of implementation of the Policy. "...thereafter notify a Revised Policy and then lay the same on the Table of both Houses of Parliament," it added. PTI

Source: http://www.ibnlive.in
Detailed report can be found at June 4th Edition of The New Indian Express, Chennai edition

Also see http://www.indiansforguns.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13185

[ruger_rugged]

I am unable to find the detailed report in New Indian Express. Could u post a link to it?

[goodboy_mentor]

Here is the link http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?724001

[ruger_rugged]

Thanks goodboy_mentor

[jonahpach]

I Hereby Proclaim and announce Goodboy Mentor to be the mostest profoundest proponent and perpetrator of RKBA in India..

[ckkalyan]

for the Parliamentary Panel!

Ab Initio Latin phrase meaning "from the start"; Faulty from the start? Phew!

I guess they meant it is simply not the done thing in the first place.

[vishosingh]

finally a little sense prevails

[jonahpach]

noo..I actually meant goodboymentor for being so bloody proactive. parliamentary panel or not.

[ruger_rugged]

I Hereby Proclaim and announce Goodboy Mentor to be the mostest profoundest proponent and perpetrator of RKBA in India..

[Anand]

This is good news! That the basic Parliamentary protocol and practices are not being followed in making amendments to the Laws and rules especially those that affect so many people has been highlighted. For what it is worth, this is appreciable.

The entire procedure till now reeks of surreptitious and questionable intent on behalf of the Home Ministry.

But to what extent it has been stalled we have to wait and see.
Anand

[Biren]

All credit goes to Mr. Rahoul Rai, Abhijeet Singh and others who worked behind the scene tirelessly to brief and appraise the Parliamentery Committee. Lets know how can we chip in. Its a great news.

Cheers
Biren

[dr.jayakumar]

hope it happens!thanks to Mr.abhijeet and co.

[darashp]

we all thanx to mr. Rahoul roi ,mr Abhijeet singh and co.

[fantumfan2003]

Many Thanks to Mr. Rahoul Rai, Abhijeet Singh and everyone else who made it all happen.

Three to you all.....

M.

[sa_ali]

So good news finally

Hats off to the the Sr members for perusing it relentlessly.