What Justice?
The Times of India Mumbai|November 09, 2022
Acquittals by higher courts of several death-row convicts speak very poorly of the legal, police system
What Justice?

The Supreme Court’s acquittal of three death-row prisoners inthe 2012 Chhawla gangrape-murder case – the court’s reason being several procedural failings during the investigation and trial – speaks of a terrible state of affairs. This crime happened in Delhi just months before the Nirbhaya case that jolted India and led to reform of sexual assault laws. But the shoddy prosecution, carried out over 2013 and 2014, as well as the Delhi high court’s failure to spot these lapses show that the Nirbhaya-inspired change of laws didn’t engender enough systemic changes.

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