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Justice delayed, justice allowed: An evergreen dilemma

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'Justice Delayed, Justice Denied'

The statements stare at me, sarcastically smiles showing its yellow teeth whenever i think about our society, people and courts. As a student of law, have heard enough about the need for speedy trial. Countless articles, workshops, seminars have thrown light on the dark side of delayed justice. It is universally accepted now top to bottom that when justice delayed, it is denied. I had also believed the same through enriched books, revolutionary speeches and well-researched seminars.
But, is that really true? I doubt. I have not yet come to any conclusion though. Let me share it with you in my first blog, being thirsty for water called enlightening thoughts.
Let me give you some real incidents because of which my notion about speedy trial has been shaken.
Incident I:
A honest gentleman takes some loan from the bank for the promotion of business. Unfortunately, he was cheated by some of his close persons and the business runs into a great loss. The Bank hardly can wait for fortune of its customers, they started to pressurise. The gentleman tried the best to repay the loan, apparently he failed in the same. His genius legal consultant propose a genius idea! The gentleman called his sisters and asked to sue him for taking loan from an ancestral property without their knowledge. In fact, the case was fake as there was will from his father and it was a valid one. When i got the opportunity of getting to know about this case and that client, I could clearly make out that that man needed to drag this case so that he get the time to repay it. "Believing in god, I cannot deceive anyone and I cannot die in debt" He told.
Incident II:
A person, virtually drunker got a site from his dead wife. He sell that site to his relatives saying that he was in need of money. He sold it to them who were a old couple for some amount in hurry. Now, after some 17 years because of hike in land rate the drunker sued his relatives for trespass. Fortune many time ditch right side! The documents which couple had were not proper as the transaction was entirely based on trust. Finally the couple want to drag the case till their death not being able to find any other roof in evening of their life.
Does the statement works in this kind of situations?? we find hundred of cases where speed disposal of cases lead to injustice. At the same time, we cannot deny the injustice being caused by delayed judicial process. My dad always tease the system of courts saying, 'the one who won is lost and the one who lost is dead!' What system can be the best to answer the both kind of instances? Why 'justice' and 'law' cannot be the same? If rendering justice to its subjects is not the object of law, then what else? After all, can the system of courts can render justice? Questions are still alive and growing up!
I feel the working mechanism of our legal system is really different from the words of divine books. According to me, in the above mentioned instances the loopholes of law is paving way to justice through its tortoise speed.
Being a baby in the field of law, I can only observe and absorb. Interpretations and Conclusions are left open.
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