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• “We should not, directly or indirectly, criticise our jawans,” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. They were standing their ground against the Chinsese at Yangtse and did not deserve the word pitaai (beaten), he added.
• The Minister was reacting to comments made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
• “Our soldiers are standing in Yangtse at 13,000 feet defending our borders. They do not deserve to have the word pitaai. The word should not be used for our jawans. Our jawans are standing their ground. They should be respected, honoured and appreciated,” Dr. Jaishankar said.
• Responding to questions from the Congress on China and the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), Dr. Jaishankar asked, “If we were indifferent to China, then who sent the Indian Army to the border? If we were indifferent to China, then why are we pressuring China for de-escalation and disengagement today? Why are we saying publicly that our relations are not normal?”
• While passing the Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill, 2019, the Minister clarified that the clause on the death penalty, which Opposition MPs had sought to be reconsidered, had been amended to punishment with death or with imprisonment for life.
• The Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill passed by the Lok Sabha will bring the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) into domestic law and enable Indian authorities to take action against piracy on the high seas.
• During the discussion on the Bill last week, Opposition MPs had asked the government to reconsider the clause for the mandatory death penalty in the Bill for any action that might cause death, and that it should be life imprisonment instead.
• Stating that the government should consider the implications of the death penalty properly, Congress MP Manish Tewari had said that this could hamper extradition from countries that did not have the death penalty, and where piracy may not even have caused death.
• During a discussion in the House on the Bill before it was passed, Dr. Jaishankar said this had now been amended to punishment with death or with imprisonment for life, if such a person was committing the act of piracy that was causing death or in an attempt thereof, which he said was in line with the Supreme Court’s pronouncement that the death penalty should be awarded in the “rarest of rare” cases, as well as in line with the extradition provisions of many countries.
• Introducing the Bill for discussion, Dr. Jaishankar said that out of the 18 recommendations of the Standing Committee, 14 had been incorporated.

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB