India Justice Report 2020 

HJ UPSC ASPIRANTS ACADEMY

● Released by: Tata Trusts along with the Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, CHRI, DAKSH and TISS-Prayas and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. 

● Objective: The report analysed the performance of 18 large and mid-sized states and eight smaller states based on four pillars of the justice delivery system: judiciary, police, prisons and legal aid. 

 

Mains_shots from the report: 

● Larger States: Maharashtra has retained the top spot on delivery of justice to people. 

● Smaller States: Tripura has topped the list. 

● Women’s representation: It has marginally increased in police, prisons and the judiciary.Women now accounts for a) 10% of all police personnel up from 7% in 2017 b) 13% prison staff (10% in 2016) and c) 29.3% of judges (26.5% in 2017-18). 

● Police to People Ratio: For every 1,00,000 people, there are just 156 police personnel. 

● Judges ratio per citizens: India has one judge per 50,000 citizens as against the recommended number of one per 20,000. 

● Under trials: Two-thirds of all prisoners are undertrials awaiting a conviction.

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