Concept Of Right & Criminal Justice In Cyber Age

Legally speaking.

- Ashutosh Agarwal

A right is not worth a right if it cannot be enforced. A right may be acquired, earned or accrued to an individual in his or her life time. A right is ‘acquired’ by investing money or rendering service for obtaining returns or the dividends. It is ‘inherited’ from the date of birth on the considerations of age, sex, caste, religion, education and the place of birth and the economic status of the family in which one is born which qualify one for certain concessions or the liabilities as per the constitutional, civil, criminal and the personal laws. A right is ‘accrued’ by operation of laws, mainly dealing with wages, taxation, domicile, civil and the criminal matters. One who is upright and innocent may find oneself to be suddenly dragged into the fold of criminal law when a wrongdoer causes wrong to a person’s life, property or reputation.

The focus on this aspect covers the whole kingdom of criminal laws. In the cyber age the development is going on in leaps and bounds not only in the realm of S&T but in every field. Development brings pressure on money resources, giving rise to the problem of price rise. In this backdrop no family can afford to be left high and dry. The conventional system of criminal law is more punitive than reformatory. It hardly redresses the conscience of the state which represents the victim by awarding stringent punishment for life and even death. On the other hand, the convict, be it the individual or the family;  both face the challenge of social acceptability.