Juvenile justice system needs to be changed: BJP

Stating that the Nirbhaya rape like incidents should not be repeated, the BJP today advocated for changes in the country's juvenile justice system so that the underage who commit heinous crimes are not allowed to roam scot-free.
"Incidents like Nirbhaya should not be repeated in the country, being a juvenile should not be an excuse to set a criminal free. The law must be changed and the law should punish such a criminal so as to send a good message," BJP National Vice President, Shyam Jaju told reporters here today.
Asked why juvenile justice system was not being amended when his party was in power at the Centre, he said, "legal justice system does not work with the interference of any government, it works as per law and there should be change in it".

Jaju said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very 'sensitive' toward the issues of women security in the country and changes in the laws protecting women would be made in the days to come.
"Nobody is more sensitive as compared to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when it comes to the security of the women in the country. In his message to the Nation on August 15 from the ramparts of the Red Fort, he had said that women security was a very sensitive issue which was close to his heart.
"In the days to come definitely changes would be made in the laws in this direction", he said.

He termed as "not true" the allegations leveled by the opposition parties that the NDA government was 'misusing' the CBI for political vendetta.

"There is not a single example (of the misuse of CBI). The 18-months-long tenure of Narendra Modi so far there is not a single instance when the CBI has been misused," he said.
The BJP leader accused Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of spreading lies on the issue of CBI raid at the office of the Principal Secretary, saying the raid was on a 'corrupt officer' and not on the office of the Delhi CM.
"If a corrupt officer of Arvind Kejriwal is raided, he (Kejriwal) has a habit of speaking lies as he says that his office was raided, the raid was on his Secretary," he said.

Jaju said the Chief minister should 'think several times' before leveling any allegations towards a constitutional body.
"The language he (Kejriwal) used against the prime minister and the allegations he leveled against him will not be tolerated by the people of this country," he said.
When asked to comment on the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister's statement that he has been able to change the BJP's mindset, Jaju said, "Jammu and Kashmir has a coalition government and both the parties are running it with the help of each other and both parties want to develop the state.
They are working on the agenda of development and moving forward toward it," he said.

He said when there was a government of two parties "compromises do take place as the government runs with the help and cooperation of each other, our priority is the development of Jammu and Kashmir.