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“Long Delays, Burdened Courts: Need for Negotiated Justice”
India’s criminal justice system is facing a severe crisis of pendency and delay, with over 5 crore cases pending across courts, including nearly 3 crore in subordinate courts. Despite constitutional guarantees of speedy justice under Article 21, systemic inefficiencies—procedural complexity, shortage of judges, and adversarial litigation culture—have resulted in prolonged trials, undermining public confidence.
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