Bare Act
The Witness Protection Act
The Uttarakhand Witness Protection Act, 2020 provides a comprehensive legal framework to safeguard witnesses and their family members from threats, intimidation, and harm during criminal investigations and trials within the State of Uttarakhand. It applies to witnesses involved in serious criminal cases, including those punishable by death, life imprisonment, or seven years or more, as well as specified sexual offenses. The law establishes district-level competent authorities, witness protection cells, and a dedicated state fund to implement safety measures such as identity concealment, home security, video link testimony, and relocation support. By ensuring witness safety, it promotes fair trials and truthful testimony.
- 1. Short title, Extent and commencemezit
- 2. Derinitions
- 3. State witness protection Fund
- 4. Submitting the application before Competent authority
- 5. Procedure for processing the application regarding providing witness protection
- 6. Types of protection measures
- 7. Monitoring and review
- 8. Protection of identity
- 9. Witness to be apprised of the provision of the Act
- 10. Confidentiality and preservation of records
- 11. Recovery of expenses
- 12. Review
- 13. Decision not to be actionable
- 14. Applicability of certain provisions of Right to Information Act
- 15. Power to make rules
- 16. Power to remove difficulties
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