Communal Violence Bill fraught with danger

A draft of a proposed legislation  titled “Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill, 2011” has been put in public domain.  The draft Bill ostensibly appears to be a part of  an endeavour to prevent and punish communal violence in the country.  Though that may be the ostensible object of the proposed law its real object is to the contrary.  It is a Bill which if it is ever enacted as a law  will intrude into the domain of the State, damage a federal polity of India and create  an imbalance in the inter-community relationship of India.