Police & criminal justice reforms MCQs with Answers

The first state in India to launch the 'Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems' (CCTNS) is

Consider the following statements regarding punishments under Chapter II of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023:

I. Section 4 enumerates six categories of punishments to which offenders are liable under the Sanhita, expressly including community service as a statutory punishment.

II. Under Section 5, the appropriate Government may, without the consent of the offender, commute any punishment to which the offender has been sentenced under the Sanhita to any other punishment in accordance with Section 474 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

III. Under Section 6, in calculating fractions of terms of punishment, imprisonment for life shall be reckoned as equivalent to twenty years, unless otherwise provided.

IV. Under Section 8(3), where an offence is punishable with imprisonment as well as fine, the term for which the Court directs the offender to be imprisoned in default of payment of a fine shall not exceed one-fourth of the term of imprisonment which is the maximum fixed for the offence.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

The Justice V. S. Malimath Committee Report (2003) deals with: