Implementation of Victim Compensation Scheme In India: A Critique

Authors

  • Dr. Ramakrishna Das PR Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18848/m9xtwh06

Keywords:

victim, compensation, DSLA, judicial interpretation, criminal justice system

Abstract

Compensation for harm is essential to reassuring and helping the victim, and it's part of the 'Right to Life under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution’. Then, ‘Section 357A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 required the state to compensate victims and their dependents for their injuries’. Victim Compensation Schemes were established in most states to provide adequate compensation. However, the judiciary and the state government failed to compensate the victims. The recent report presented before the apex Court in the ‘Re Alarming Rise in Number of Reported Child Incidents’ case reveals that no interim or final compensation is being awarded in 99 percent of the criminal cases’. Hence, through this research, the author is giving a critical approach towards the implementation of a victim compensation scheme in India

Published

2007-2025

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