 bill no 236 of  2016 the code of criminal procedure (amendment) bill, 2016 by shri vishnu dayal ram, mp a billfurther to amend the code of criminal procedure, 1973be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-seventh year of the republic of india as follows:—2 of 1974amendment of the first schedule2 in the first schedule to the code of criminal procedure, 1973, under the heading"i—offences under the indian penal code", for the entries relating to section 353, the following entries shall be substituted, namely:—| 1         | 2               | 3            | 4    | 5        | 6                ||-----------|-----------------|--------------|------|----------|------------------|| 5         |                 |              |      |          |                  || 10        |                 |              |      |          |                  || "353     | assault or      | imprisonment | non- | bailable | any magistrate" || use of    | for 2 years, or | cognizable   |      |          |                  || criminal  | fine, or both  |              |      |          |                  || force to  |                 |              |      |          |                  || deter a   |                 |              |      |          |                  || public    |                 |              |      |          |                  || servant   |                 |              |      |          |                  || from      |                 |              |      |          |                  || discharge |                 |              |      |          |                  || of his    |                 |              |      |          |                  || duty     |                 |              |      |          |                  || 15        |                 |              |      |          |                  | statement  of  objects  and  reasonsin the first schedule to the code of criminal procedure 1973, under the heading"offence under the indian penal code" in the entries relating to section 353, the offence of assault on or use of criminal force against a public servant in order to deter him from discharging his duty is cognizable and non-bailable before 2005, section 353 of indian penal code was a bailable offence but by the code of criminal procedure (amendment) act, 2005, this section was amended and made non-bailable offence however, this amendment is being used mostly for political vendetta by incumbent governmentit often happens that to protest against a decision of the government or against any incident, political activists use road blockage, dharna-pradarsan, etc in such cases, the incumbent government uses this section as result of which people are arrested in violation of the provisions of this section therefore, it is necessary to amend the code of criminal procedure in order to make the offence against assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from non-bailable to bailable in order to strengthen democratic rootshence this billnew delhi;vishnu dayal ramjuly  12, 2016 annexure extract from the code of criminal procedure, 1973[ 2 of 1974]     chapter xvi—offences affecting the human body| 1         | 2               | 3            | 4          | 5            | 6   ||-----------|-----------------|--------------|------------|--------------|-----|| "353     | assault or      | imprisonment | cognizable | non-bailable | any || use of    | for 2 years, or | magistrate" |            |              |     || criminal  | fine, or both  |              |            |              |     || force to  |                 |              |            |              |     || deter a   |                 |              |            |              |     || public    |                 |              |            |              |     || servant   |                 |              |            |              |     || from      |                 |              |            |              |     || discharge |                 |              |            |              |     || of his    |                 |              |            |              |     || duty     |                 |              |            |              |     | lok  sabha———— a billfurther to amend the code of criminal procedure, 1973————(shri vishnu dayal ram, mp)gmgipmrnd—2607ls(s3)—13102016