CHAPTER –IX
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
9.1 Now it is time to view the research questions
1. Whether Universal Declaration of Human Rights is fully enforced in India?
The Indian Constitution Law came into existence on 26th November 1950.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into existence on 10th December
1948. As observed in chapter III of this research, all the articles of UDHR except
article 30 are incorporated in our Constitution in chapter III and chapter IV of our
constitution. The problem that existed earlier was Part III of the Indian
Constitution is enforceable while Part-IV of the Indian Constitution was not
enforceable. The Supreme Court while deliberating on life and liberty through
Article 21 of Indian Constitution has declared that all the demands of Part IV are
mandatory and hence part IV has become enforceable.
If India strictly adheres to the Indian Constitution Law, then India will be
strictly applying the UDHR. The Politicians, Judges, Bureaucrats, Human Right
Commissions talk high of UDHR in meetings and seminars but fail to put them in
practice. The Supreme Court of India has time and again insisted on the adherence
of Constitution of India and UDHR in its judgments and it pains to note even the
Supreme Court is violating the Human Rights in its judgments. One can conclude
that UDHR is only on paper but not in practice. If we strictly follow the demands
of our Constitution Law, we will then follow the demands of the UDHR. But we
find that the Constitutional Law is not followed and so the Universal Declaration
Human Rights is not fully enforced in India. If it is enforced in India, the sorry
plight of the under trials languishing in prison would have seen the light of the
day.
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2. Whether basics of Criminal Jurisprudence understood in the clairvoyant
manner by the Judiciary and the Police?
The apex court of India has delivered wonderful judgments on the basics
of Criminal Jurisprudence but now it seems that judiciary and the police do not
understand the basics of Criminal Jurisprudence in a clear manner. The police
wield the law of the land. The police get convinced by their investigation but they
do not know how to convince the court of law. If section 27 of Evidence Act is
removed, the police would be groping in the dark as to how to complete the
investigation. The police apply only crude unscientific methods in investigating
crimes which exposes that the police are ignorant of the basics of the Criminal
Jurisprudence.
In judiciary we hear convicting judge and acquittal judge. These two names
informs that certain judges are very particular, in basing conviction and the other
judges are bent in according benefit of doubt to the accused. The benefit of doubt
is the golden rule of the Criminal Jurisprudence and so conviction can be based
only when there are no doubts. Investigation should link the weapons or objects to
the crime and should link the crime to the accused. When there is a missing link
the judiciary cannot base a conviction.
It is time and again held by the higher courts that courts of law are not to
probe into truth of anything but it has to give a judgment that is a final decision
based on the evidence placed before the court. In some of the judgments we find
the judges taking the role of public prosecutor in arguing the case in the judgment
in favour of the prosecution.
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