PTI
New Delhi, Dec 4: The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a bill to check communal violence besides some other legislations including bringing the one that seeks to bring parity in perks between ministers and MPs.
The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the re-drafted Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of victims) bill for introduction in Parliament, sources said.
The decision comes a week after the Government tabled the Action Taken Report on Liberhan Commission report on Babri Masjid demolition in which it had promised to bring this bill expeditiously.
Among other things, the proposed measure provides for enabling the Centre to declare an area in a state as communally disturbed on its own and send central security forces without the state’s request. This was based on the recommendation of Administrative Reforms Committee.