Prelim Bits 25-03-2017

Fishing communities in India           

Law Commission Report

• Recently, law commission has submitted its 267th report following SC's request to examine ways to arm the Election Commission to crack down on hate speech in 2014.
• In the report, Law Commission has defined Hate Speech as " It is any word written or spoken, signs, visible representations within the hearing or sight of a person with the intention to cause fear or alarm, or incitement to violence".
• It also proposed a new law - The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2017, to make speech inciting hatred and speech that causes fear, alarm or provocation of violence, a criminal offence under IPC.
• Law commission is an executive (non-statutory) body created by the government from time to time.
• The Commission was originally constituted in 1955 and is re-constituted every three years. Accordingly, 21st law commission was constituted in 2015 headed by Justice Balbir Singh for the period of 2015 to 2018.
• Law Commission is requested to work upon specific issues and submit its views assigned by the Law ministry and the Supreme Court on various occasions.

INS Vikramaditya

• INS Vikramaditya is a Kiev class aircraft carrier which was commissioned by Russian Navy in 1987 under the name Baku.
• It was later renamed as Admiral Gorshkov and later offered to India in 2004.
• It is the biggest and heaviest ship to be operated by the Indian Navy.
• Recently, Indian Navy has successfully launched the first trial of the recently installed Surface-to-Air missile system from its aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.