Senate Votes to Drop ‘Lunatic’ and ‘Insane’ From Criminal Laws

Bill replaces colonial-era labels with ‘mental disorder’ across the Penal Code, criminal procedure and evidence law, five years after a landmark Supreme Court ruling LAHORE: Pakistan’s Senate has passed a bill that strips terms such as “lunatic”, “insane”, “idiot” and “unsound mind” from the country’s core criminal laws and replaces them with references to “mental. .. The post Senate Votes to Drop ‘Lunatic’ and ‘Insane’ From Criminal Laws appeared first on The Lahore Times.

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