‘Legislators must distinguish between white collar and traditional crimes’, the national legal conference said former CJI Sanjeev Khanna – Justice Khanna asks that white collar crimes be distinguished

Updated: Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:41 am (IST) Former CJI Sanjeev Khanna requested lawmakers on the National Law Conference to distinguish between white collar and traditional crimes. He said there should be fewer hard fines for white collar crimes such as financial fraud, as it does not do physical damage. He suggested that the laws and the introduction of special courts are reform to deal with these crimes. Former Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna. Digital Desk, New -Delhi. Former Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Saturday requested a more sensitive and fine distinction in maintaining laws dealing with financial fraud cases. TPF liability: Addressing the National Legal Conference on combating white-collar crime, he said that every act or failure to act financial implications cannot be seen from the same perspective. Remove ads only read news that he has called on the MPs to make a clear distinction between fraud, unintended errors and procedural decay. He said that all financial irregularities should not be treated equally. In my opinion, such cases must be handled differently. “Not knowing about the law is no excuse,” he said that he does not know about the law, cannot be an excuse, but the real problem arises when the legislature equates white collar crimes with traditional crimes and ignores the intent and spiritual aspect behind them. He said that financial crimes can be broadly divided into three categories: crimes committed with clear criminal intent, recklessness or crimes caused by misunderstanding and procedural decay. He also expressed his concern that in the case of financial crimes, this practice is also wrong that the whole onus to prove that his innocence is falling on the accused and the pressure on the prosecution to prove guilt is less. There is also a need to be careful about this. (With input from the news agency Ani)