Criminal Justice Reform Essay
Need of Reforms in Criminal Justice System
Law is a set of rules and regulation prescribed by the administration in justice. The first and the foremost objective of law are welfare and betterment of society i.e. in easy words we can say that provide justice to a common man. In today’s era Change is constant, this is evident as the time is changing and so is the law in the form of amendment. But even in the new phase of legislations the “criminal justice system” of India is yet to improve. The biggest obstacle is that, we have very old substantive and procedural laws for the criminal justice system. The Indian Penal Code is of 1860; with the passage of time the conditions are changing. Before Indian Independence there were some moral values existed in the society but since the times are changing, the …show more content…
This was the report given by malimath committee which was formed for the latest scenario of criminal justice system by ministry of home affairs in Nov. 2000 headed by former CJI of Kerala and member of NHRC, Justice V.S. Malimath. The Report submitted by malimath start with quote “Everything has been said already but as no one listens, we must always begin again”.
The committee presented its report in six different parts i.e. fundamental principles, Investigation & prosecution, Judiciary, Crime & punishment, looking ahead, and concluded with recommendations. It was found that the government was introducing a bill to amend the code of criminal procedure, reflecting a few of committee’s recommendations. The recommendations of committee cover are wide ranging, from making confession to the police admissible to the courts, to making matrimonial cruelty a bailable offence; they include placing a police officer as head of prosecution and adding former from the prevention of terrorism Act (POTA), in to regular penal law, However there was no official government response to the
Law is a set of rules and regulation prescribed by the administration in justice. The first and the foremost objective of law are welfare and betterment of society i.e. in easy words we can say that provide justice to a common man. In today’s era Change is constant, this is evident as the time is changing and so is the law in the form of amendment. But even in the new phase of legislations the “criminal justice system” of India is yet to improve. The biggest obstacle is that, we have very old substantive and procedural laws for the criminal justice system. The Indian Penal Code is of 1860; with the passage of time the conditions are changing. Before Indian Independence there were some moral values existed in the society but since the times are changing, the …show more content…
This was the report given by malimath committee which was formed for the latest scenario of criminal justice system by ministry of home affairs in Nov. 2000 headed by former CJI of Kerala and member of NHRC, Justice V.S. Malimath. The Report submitted by malimath start with quote “Everything has been said already but as no one listens, we must always begin again”.
The committee presented its report in six different parts i.e. fundamental principles, Investigation & prosecution, Judiciary, Crime & punishment, looking ahead, and concluded with recommendations. It was found that the government was introducing a bill to amend the code of criminal procedure, reflecting a few of committee’s recommendations. The recommendations of committee cover are wide ranging, from making confession to the police admissible to the courts, to making matrimonial cruelty a bailable offence; they include placing a police officer as head of prosecution and adding former from the prevention of terrorism Act (POTA), in to regular penal law, However there was no official government response to the