RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE WEAKER SECTION

Abstract

In India, the role of victims is negligible and is clearly limited to being a witness in a court. It was claimed in the famous case of Jennison Vs. Baker that "Law should not sit limply, while those who challenge it go free and those who seek its safeguards lose hope." The quotation aptly defines the current Criminal Justice System in India where there are numerous diseases such as government corruption, shortage of system coordination, delay in case dismissal, complicated and expensive procedures. This paper briefly discusses the same and puts this blindspot issue into focus by highlighting various relevant facts and cases along with concluding the current status of the financially weaker section in regard to the availing the restorative justice.