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Kalam for speeding up judicial process New Delhi, March 26 He said: “Probably, it may be useful to conduct a case study of
“The study may also throw a light on how to speed up the judicial process,” he added.
Citing official figures, Kalam said law enforcement agencies arrested 19,000 persons in 2003 under the NDPS Act, whereas the number of persons prosecuted was 7,800. Of these, 3,006 were convicted, while 2,300 were acquitted. Observing that there was a huge gap between the number of arrests made and the actual conviction, the President said: “This should definitely become a matter of concern for the law enforcement authorities and the judiciary.” He also pointed to law courts’ tendency “to give the benefit of the doubt to the accused purely due to technical reasons” and suggested that judges ensured that “law and justice... point in the same direction”. “I find that the courts also have a tendency to give the benefit of the doubt to the accused purely due to technical reasons of law.” “I would suggest that the Honourable Justices assembled here to take the responsibility to ensure that both law and justice become convergent and point in the same direction.”
— PTI, UNI |
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