The India Justice Report (IJR) evaluates the capacity and performance of India’s justice system across various states. This second edition of the report, released in 2021, was produced by Tata Trusts in collaboration with Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, DAKSH, TISS-Prayas, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and How India Lives. It follows the framework established by its predecessor report in 2019, and ranks 25 states based on four crucial pillars: the judiciary, police, prisons and legal aid.The timing and context of the report is particularly noteworthy. The dramatic disruption caused in the judicial system due to covid-19 exposed long-existing vulnerabilities which became far more pronounced during the crisis. Rule of law and justice delivery systems faltered, impacting the most marginalised sections of society. The report underscores how the recommendations of the Law Commission of India, National Police Commission, and the All India Committee on Jail Reforms (Mulla Committee) could have made a difference had they been implemented earlier. For instance, well-trained legal aid professionals, better-managed prisons with adequate medical resources, and better relationship between police and the community could have helped the dispensing of justice. With the introduction of ten new indicators, such as police personnel training and video conferencing capacity in prisons, the report provides a deeper insight into the justice delivery mechanisms across India. It notes that vacancy levels remain alarmingly high, especially in crucial areas like medical staffing in prisons, which has seen a significant drop since 2016...
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- Rights
- Tata Trusts
Table of Contents
- About our partners 5
- Foreword 6
- Acknowledgements 12
- Abbreviations 14
- India in the World 18
- Introduction 21
- Findings 27
- Overall ranking 28
- Ranking intention 31
- Ranking human resources 32
- Ranking diversity 34
- List of indicators on preceding map pages 35
- Police 45
- Police ranking 46
- The Capacity Deficits 47
- Police Investigating Capacity 48
- Prisons 63
- Prisons Ranking 64
- The Capacity Deficits 65
- The other deficits 65
- Prisons Reforms Barred 66
- Judiciary 75
- Judiciary ranking 76
- The Capacity Deficits 77
- The other deficits 77
- Judiciary Evidence for Reform 78
- Legal Aid 87
- Legal aid ranking 88
- The Capacity Deficits 89
- Legal aid Access to Justice for All 90
- Methodology 98
- POLICE 104
- PRISONS 107
- JUDICIARY 109
- LEGAL AID 111
- References 114
