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Maharashtra tops justice delivery in India; Uttar Pradesh worst performer
Maharashtra tops justice delivery in India, southern states dominate ranking 29% judges are women, in High Courts only 11.4% 2/3rd inmates are undertrials, says the second edition of the India Justice Report.
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The second edition of the India Justice Report (IJR), India’s only ranking of states on delivery of Justice to people ranks Maharashtra once again at the top of the 18 Large and Mid-sized states (with population of over one crore each), followed by Tamil Nadu (2019: 3rd), Telangana (2019: 11th) Punjab (2019: 4th) and Kerala (2019: 2nd). The list of seven Small States (population less than one crore each) was topped by Tripura (2019: 7th), followed by Sikkim (2019: 2nd) and Goa (2019: 3rd).
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Over the past few years, Maharashtra witnessed brutal killing of Right to Information (RTI) activists from across the state. While studying and writing a book on this, what my fellow researcher, writer Prasannakumar Keskar, and I found was the gross failure of the criminal justice system to identify and punish the murderers. Further, none of the 13 dead whistleblowers had any personal agenda or motive while seeking information under RTI and, yet, they were killed. Shockingly, in at least four cases, the accused were acquitted for lack of sufficient evidence. So, while the fact of murder is undeniable, nobody has been found guilty of committing the crime or killing RTI activists.
How criminal justice system responded to murder of 13 RTI activists of Maharashtra
At least 16 RTI activists have been killed in Maharashtra since 2010. Their fault they used RTI to unearth corruption, misuse of public funds and exposed horsetrading of elected representatives among other things. How did the criminal justice system respond to this phenomenon? Veteran journalists, Vinita Deshmukh and Prasanna Kumar Keskar investigated the lives and deaths of 13 RTI activists who paid the price for transparency with their lives.
Excerpts from the report “Life and Death in the Time of RTI: Case Studies from Maharashtra” , a Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) publication:
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Police in Hoima district in midwestern Uganda have stormed the streets of the oil city demanding for their salaries which have delayed.
“After that we are expected to go on patrol. Our uniforms get so dirty, our boots start to smell. We cannot even wash them,” one of the angry police constables told local press on Saturday morning.
Details from this part of the country indicate that Police have fired teargas at over 60 Special Police Constable that need their demands met immediately.
In Uganda, the Police to Population ratio stands at 1:772 according to their most recent statistical report while the UN standard is 1: 500.