RELEVANCY OF PLEA BARGAINING IN JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS IN INDIA
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plea-bargaining, judiciary, legislature, criminal justice system, law commissionAbstract
The Indian Judiciary is look upon as one of the most potent judiciaries across the globe, but this powerful judiciary is being crippled by the burden of pending cases. In order to elucidate this problem, the legislature introduced the notion of plea bargaining in the Indian Criminal Justice System. This Article makes an exertion to scrutinise the thoughts process of the legislature in incorporating the conception plea bargaining in India by going into the recommendation of the Law Commission and the Committee on Reforms of the Criminal Justice System. Author tries to touch the origin of the concept of Plea Bargaining. Further determinations have been made to review the present legal position regarding plea bargaining in India by going into the provisions of law and judicial decisions. Drawbacks under the legislation are deliberated along with suggestions for better application of the provisions. The Article concludes by calling for a inclusive study to review the functioning of plea bargaining in order to bring it in conformity with its anticipated objective of bringing down the pendency and ensuring speedier disposal of cases.
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