SPACE LAW AND EMERGING SECURITY THREATS

Abstract

The presentation of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) in 2023, intended to supplant the Indian Penal Code of 1860, denoting an amazing push towards the modernization of India's criminal unlawful equity framework (Thomas, 2024).The new laws seek to create a modernized, common sense structure that effectively and efficiently responds to hurting our communities, and protects national security interests (Naik, 2024).Similarly, some analysis indicates the BNS still holds transgressions based on archaic moral values, with apprehension around the growing power of the State and Police as well (Naik, 2024).This raises some of the civil liberties and security trade-offs. The BNS attempts to fill up several gaps of the earlier legislation and include new provisions to deal with the evolving characteristics of crime which now includes crime committed through digital means. Such legislative changes allow bringing certain space-related provisions or enactments along with similar provisions to make India stronger with its capability to regulate or prosecute crimes or offenses occurring out of or affecting the space domain.