Our Criminal Justice System Can Itself Be A Punishment: Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court observed while discharging three accused in an alleged abetment of suicide case which was registered way back in 2008 in Punjab.
The Supreme Court observed while discharging three accused in an alleged abetment of suicide case which was registered way back in 2008 in Punjab that "The criminal justice system of ours can itself be a punishment."
The Supreme Court observed that the appeals, arising out of the April 2009 verdict of the Punjab and Haryana High Court which had dismissed the pleas filed by the three accused assailing the trial court's order framing charges against them in the case, remained pending for 13 years.
"The criminal justice system of ours can itself be a punishment! It is exactly what has happened in this case," a bench of Justices S K Kaul and A S Oka said in its order passed on November 24.
"Fourteen years on an issue of abetment of suicide in an episode where a student was reprimanded for misconduct in college and an endeavour to take disciplinary action and call the father, though the parent did not turn up, and subsequently the child committed suicide. An unfortunate situation," it said.
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