New Year Gift to Criminals?

Dear friend I partially agree with you that this amendment may benefit the proclaimed offenders/criminals but as the criminal law of the land is 'an accused is innocent unless proved guilty' we cannot call all the accused as criminals because the accused become criminal when the court find him guilt of committing an offence,then one can call him criminal not otherwise. Secondly one thing which you did not notice in this amendment will be great help to all those husbands & their parents against whom their wives make false F.I.R for dowry & cruelty under the Dowry Prohibition Act & section 406,498A Indian Penal Code etc. Although the punishment for the offence is maximum for 3 years but since these are cognisable,non-bailable offence,the accused parties were being arrested by the local Police & then produced in the Court for further proceedings with regard to either their remand or bail as the case maybe. Now at least these victim of false dowry/cruelty criminal complaints will not be arrested like other proclaimed offenders & will have dignified appearance in the police station & the court. Think this amendment in the Criminal Procedure Code from this point of view.