Experts call for curbing powers that 65-year-old law gives cops
The Times Of India :
Section 110 brings under its purview obscenity, indecent behavior’s and disorderly conduct but fails to explain what acts constitute the crime. “The law does not define what could constitute an indecent act or disorderly conduct and leaves it to the discretion of the police,” says Delhi-based lawyer Shilpi Jain, who is representing a petitioner seeking inquiry into the Madh raids. “The law is grossly misused, as even questioning a police officer can be brought under the wide sweep of this law. There is an urgent need to curb the powers as the use of this law cannot be left to the fancy of the police,” added advocate Jain, who in the petition had urged the Bombay high court to set up a committee under a retired HC judge to look into the misuse of the Act.