Kurukshetra, Oct. 4 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said the enactment of three new criminal laws will simplify the justice process and make it time-bound, promising that by 2026, any FIR registered will be resolved within three years on average.

Shah was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a week-long exhibition on the three new criminal laws in Kurukshetra.

He said that the new laws - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam-2023 - passed by Parliament in May 2023 - are going to transform the criminal justice system in the country and have already delivered swift justice and eliminated "tareekh pe tareekh"(repeated adjournments) in courts.

The exhibition, initially ...