Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, June 19, 2026, announced the launch of four new digital applications aimed at accelerating justice delivery under India's new criminal laws, marking a significant step in the government's push to modernise the country's law-enforcement and prosecution ecosystem.

Shah stated that the four apps — NCRB-ABHIGYAN, CrPI Application, E-Prosecution 2.0, and E-Forensics 2.0 — 'will mitigate the hardship people have endured since independence in protecting their rights, by speeding up justice with the help of new criminal laws.'

Context

The launch comes nearly two years after India's three landmark criminal laws came into force on 1 July 2024, replacing colonial-era statutes: the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita replaced the Indian Penal Code (1860), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure (1973), and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam replaced the Indian Evidence Act (1872). These laws were passed by Parliament in December 2023 and explicitly mandate time-bound investigations and trials while expanding the scope of digital evidence.

The four applications are developed under the aegis of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the Ministry of Home Affairs' central repository for crime data and police IT infrastructure.

Policy Backdrop

India's effort to digitise its criminal justice chain has a long lineage. The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), rolled out nationally from 2009 onward, was the foundational push to digitise First Information Reports (FIRs) and police workflows across states. The four new applications represent the next layer of this stack, designed to align digital infrastructure with the procedural requirements of the new criminal laws.

E-Prosecution 2.0 and E-Forensics 2.0 suggest iterative upgrades to existing platforms, signalling that the government is building on prior digital frameworks rather than starting from scratch. The CrPI Application and NCRB-ABHIGYAN are positioned as new tools to serve police forces and citizens respectively within the reformed legal framework.

Stakeholders and Impact

The primary beneficiaries of the four platforms span the entire criminal justice chain: state police forces responsible for investigation, public prosecutors managing case files in court, forensic laboratories handling evidence, and ultimately citizens seeking timely redress. Reducing manual, paper-based processes at each of these nodes is expected to cut case pendency, a chronic challenge in India's justice system.

For ordinary citizens, faster forensic processing and digitised prosecution workflows could translate into quicker trial timelines — a core promise of the 2023-24 criminal law reforms. State governments will be key implementation partners, and their pace of onboarding these applications will determine real-world impact.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to state-wise rollout and integration of the four applications with existing CCTNS databases. Parliamentary committees and audit bodies are likely to monitor adoption rates, interoperability with state police systems, and measurable reductions in case pendency. The success of this digital push will be a litmus test for whether the legislative ambition of the 2023-24 criminal law overhaul translates into ground-level justice delivery across India's 28 states and 8 Union Territories.