RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL IN INDIA: A MYTH OR REALITY
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Right to fair trial has been a part of Indian legal jurisprudence for quite long now and is deeply ingrained into our justice administration system, be it civil, administrative or criminal. Time and again, the courts have also intervened to ensure that the right is not unduly violated.
However, some recent developments have raised some doubts in public mind, quite naturally so, as to whether this right is a myth or a reality. As said, these doubts do have some ground. For example, the police, the investigating agencies and the judiciary showed a deserving promptness and alacrity in cases involving terrorists like Kasab, Guru and Memon and took them to their natural conclusion. But in many cases involving even petty offenders, the same sort of seriousness is often found missing on the part of the concerned agencies. Our snailpaced and over-burdened judiciary also hardly has time to go into the merits of such cases and do justice within a reasonable time.
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