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PAPER ID:IJIM/Vol. 7(IX)/January 2023/16-21/4
AUTHOR: Ankit Kumar
TITLE: A STUDY ON PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE CRIMINAL LAW REFORMS IN INDIA: SPECIAL REFERENCES WITH LAW COMMISSION REPORTS.
ABSTRACT: The most advanced form of government is the criminal justice system. It dominates society and parades a variety of organisations, individuals, groups, and sanctions to support its perceptions. The police station, courts, jail, bail, sentence, jails, imprisonment, death row, the gallows, hanging, and death are all included in this array, as well as constables in uniform and those brandishing batons. Each of these organisations and procedures is a component of the criminal justice system while yet having some degree of independence within it. However, the fact that there are several issues about whether or not these institutions are operating effectively within their purview is a major cause for concern. Are the enforcing agencies failing to follow the criminal law’s provisions? How effectively do law commission recommendations get put into practice? Whether the recommendations made in the Malimath Committee Report on Criminal Law Reforms are being properly implemented and upheld. Is India’s adversarial system of criminal justice appropriate in the modern world, or is it time to adopt a few principles of the inquisitorial system of justice that is used in common law nations? These few queries are an attempt by the researchers to introduce our criminal justice system in the current publication. The scholars also concentrate on the Law Commission’s reform suggestions. In order to strengthen and streamline the current criminal justice system in India, the researchers have recommended certain significant changes/modifications.
KEYWORDS: Criminal Justice System, Adversarial, Inquisitorial, Malimath Committee, Law Commission, Human Rights, Courts, Police.