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Kurukshetra: Union Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said the enactment of three new criminal laws is the biggest reform the country has witnessed in the 21st century.

He asserted that the new laws will make the process of justice delivery simpler and time bound and after 2026, an FIR will be disposed of in three years on an average.

Shah stressed that the new laws -- the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) -- framed by the BJP-led Centre are going to transform the criminal-justice system in the country.

The BNS, the BNSS and the BSA replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and the Indian Evidence Act, respectively. The new laws came into effect on J

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