Hyderabad, July 31 -- By Abhik Sen and Moumita Barman

Justice is measured not just in terms of punishing an accused, but also by how fairly all parties have been treated. Closure and reparation for victims are pertinent for effective justice delivery, and so is a timely, impartial verdict for the accused. Yet in India, that process too often collapses under delay. When years pass before a case is even heard, both reparation and accountability lose meaning. The real crisis, then, is not a struggle between victims' rights and defendants' rights, but a system so stalled that it fails both.

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