INDIA JUSTICE REPORT

INDIA JUSTICE REPORT

Subject : Important Reports

Context :  At 25.3 per cent, Bihar leads the list of 25 states for employing most women in its police force, according to the second annual survey on police, prisons, judiciary and legal aid, India Justice Report, released on Thursday.

Concept :

• India Justice Report prepared by the Tata Trusts in collaboration with the Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has been released.
• The India Justice Report is an exhaustive study of the objective conditions prevailing in India’s legal system, including its bottlenecks, use of new technologies and its key failings.
• This is the first-ever ranking of Indian states on justice delivery. It is released annually.
• The report has divided states on the basis of the population into two parts:
• The large-medium states (Population 1 crore and above)
• The small states and Union Territories (Population less than 1 crore).

Key Findings

• Maharashtra is India’s best-performing state, according to the latest India Justice Report, 2020
• The other states in the top five are Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Punjab and Kerala.
• Among the 18 major states, the worst in terms of justice-delivery are Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.
• Among the seven small states that have a population of less than a crore, the best-performing states were Tripura followed by Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh.
• On diversity, Karnataka is the only state to meet its quotas for SC, ST and OBC in both officer cadre and constabulary, Chhattisgarh being the only other state that meets the diversity requirements for constabulary.