UPCOCB in assembly again next week

LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government will move the controversial Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime (UPCOCB) Bill 2017 again in the state assembly on March 27.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath had moved the bill in state assembly on December 20, 2017 to enact the new law to control organized crime.

Though the state government got the bill passed in the state assembly amid protests from the opposition, the upper house, where the Samajwadi Party is still in majority, had rejected the bill on March 13, 2018. Uttar Pradesh minister for parliamentary affairs Suresh Khanna made an announcement to move the bill again in the house after principal secretary Vidhan Sabha Pradeep Dubey informed the house that the Vidhan Parishad had rejected the UPCOCB at its meeting here on March 13.

“We will move the bill again in the assembly on March 27,” said Khanna. He also moved the Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill 2017 that was also rejected by the upper house of state legislature on March 13 and received by the state assembly on March 14, 2018.

UP MINISTER FOR PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS SURESH KHANNA MADE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MOVE THE BILL AGAIN IN THE HOUSE

The state assembly is likely to pass the Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Bill 2017 again and resend the same to the upper house for its consideration.

If the upper house rejects the bill again or passes the bill with amendments not acceptable to the lower house, or does not pass the bill within one month, then the bill will be deemed to have been passed by both the houses in the form in which it was passed by the lower house for the second time. Earlier, in a statement of objects and reasons for introducing the bill the chief minister had said, “Existing legal framework i.e. the penal and procedural laws and the adjudicatory system have been found to be rather inadequate to curb the menace of organised crime. It has, therefore, been decided to enact a special law with stringent and deterrent provisions...to control the menace of organised crime.”