जुडिसिनयल सिस्टिम इन इंडिया

'The judicial system is so clogged up that it will take years to come to trial. At that eventual stage, we know, the prosecution’s case will be thrown out for lack of evidence. But by then our lives will have been ruined. Hours will have been spent dealing with policemen and other authorities. Lakhs will have been spent on lawyers. Our reputations will have suffered. Many of us will have lost our jobs or large portions of our incomes.
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This was not the situation the framers of our Constitution intended. The presumption of innocence was implicit in nearly every law they devised and having faced colonial persecution, the last thing they wanted was to replace a repressive imperial state with a homegrown autocratic government....And yet, in some ways, that is exactly what we have become.
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Judging by the interest that the Umar Khalid case has generated and the level of public outrage, the people of India are now saying that enough is enough. Innocent citizens fear the government in a way that no citizens in a democracy ever should. Faith in the police and the revenue agencies is at worrying low; levels not seen since...???

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