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Dangerous?

Sir, — The Malimath Committee's recommendations pertaining to reforms in criminal law are strange. Sir James Fitzmann Stephen, who drafted the Evidence Act, was a visionary who laid down that confessions to police are not admissible in a court of law. But the Committee recommends that such evidence be made admissible. The presumption of innocence is also enshrined in the Act. But the Committee has recommended that the standard of "proof beyond reasonable doubt" be done away with. Surely, there are other areas where reforms are required.

S.S. Venkata Subramanian,
Chennai

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