Unabated Plight Of Undertrials In The Criminal Justice System

Abstract

Under trial and their plight are two interconnected issues which bog down Indian criminal justice system & prison administration simultaneously. Under trials form major chunk of detainees/ prison inmates. Consequentially, scores of other administrative ailments crop up which lead to the core issue of gross violations of human rights. Our dispensation of the justice system consists of the police, courts & prison which form three pillars on which the edifice of justice is founded. The cumulative effect is that there are 430 lakh cases pending in District Courts of India. There are approx. 60 lakh cases pending in High Courts across the country and approx. 69 thousand cases in the Supreme Court thus, there are approx. Human Rights are those cardinal intrinsic and pious rights which are as significant as are the humans themselves. Human Rights as basic rights exist and commence with the moment humans come into existence. The rights are inalienable and exist irrespective of caste, creed, gender, religion etc. Human Rights are liable to be violated by other individuals and institutions. The elaborate and comprehensive declarations and provisions in statutes are of no value in the presence of trivialization of human rights.