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CJI Ramana suggests NALSA to actively carry out nationwide sensitisation of police officers

Aug 09, 2021, 07:49AM ISTSource: Times Now

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Sunday said that to earn citizens' trust and faith, the judiciary must make everyone, including a vast majority of vulnerable population still living outside the justice system, feel assured that it existed for each of them. At the unveiling of a new mobile application developed by National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) intending to reach help to the poor with free legal aid for efficacious access to justice, Justice Ramana said, "If, as an institution, the judiciary wants to garner the faith of the citizens, we have to make everyone feel assured that we exist for them. For the longest time, the vulnerable population has lived outside the system of justice". CJI Ramana said even after nearly 75 years of independence, custodial torture and other police atrocities still occur in our country. "The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in police stations. Custodial torture and other police atrocities are problems that still prevail in our society." "In spite of constitutional declarations and guarantees (for the rights), lack of effective legal representation at the police stations is a huge detriment to arrested/detained persons. The decisions taken in these early hours will later determine the ability of the accused to defend himself... Going by the recent reports even the privileged are not spared third - degree treatment," he said and suggested NALSA to actively carry out nationwide sensitisation of police officers.

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