Year : 2019, Volume : 1, Issue : 1
First page : ( 81) Last page : ( 88)
Print ISSN : 2582-4627. Online ISSN : 2582-7529. Published online : 2019 February 24.

Imbalance of justice

Sharma Anshu¹, Student

¹Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi

Abstract

“The rights of victims of crime are a subject that has unfortunately only drawn sporadic attention of Parliament, the Judiciary and civil society. Yet it has made great progress evolving and developing jurisprudence that has made this possible but we still have a long way to go to bring the rights of victims of crime to the centre stage and to recognise them as human rights and an important component of Social justice and rule of law ”

Justice Mr. Madan B.Lokur²

Rights of an accusedfar outweigh the rights of a victim and is not about providing lesser rights to the accused the main goal of this article is to focus on the fact that victims deserve equal rights because one cannot be unsure of the fact that if an accused is actually an accused until the court decides so but a victim is a victim who has been suffering certain losses from the beginning. We require a balance between the victims and the accused. A victim ever since the court proceeding starts goes through a lot of trauma to begin with any act of wrong that has been done to him is the first step we have to go to the court proceedings face various questions by the opponent lawyers and the accused himself. And this process is not a small process it is a very lengthy tiresome job and it is true that Judiciary has played its role in providing the right justice to all the people but the process is long in countries like India. The voice of the victim is not heard or not given as much importance as it deserved. in order to make a judicial concept of justice that would provide equal justice to the accused and the victim and as much as it is important for the accused to have all the remedies in order to protect himself against false accusations it is also important for the victim to put forward his word and have a have an important say in the process ofjustice.

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Keywords

Accusations, Victims, Crime, Rights, Concept of Justice, Proceedings.

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