General Issues & Reforms to reduce the wrongful convictions in India | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Wrongful convictions never occur when judges can be trusted to make fair decisions. Every wrongful conviction was the product of a deliberate procedure involving law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and perhaps both trial and appellate level judges. Even though authors have condemned prosecutors, police detectives, defence lawyers, and lab workers for their roles in wrongful convictions, judges have often been given a pass. Judges are often portrayed in the news and other forms of broadcast media as unbiased, apolitical individuals who possess exceptional intelligence, wisdom, and compassion and care deeply that justice is served in every circumstance while sitting in their high positions, which may explain why they are not more involved in the community. But in reality, things seem quite different from that rosy picture