I know how it feels, may be I do not exactly know; but I have certainly tried empathizing and putting my self into the shoes of those people who have been written off by the society at large! Are not we, as a race, well versed with the art of writing people off? Are we not the masters in the art of reaching hasty conclusions? Don’t we pass judgments every moment we breath out? Have we ever wondered what are the implications of this “not so harmless” sociological trait? Have we ever bothered sitting back and analyzing what price one has to pay because of our habit of being reckless self appointed judge? This sociological trait is a part of the criminal justice system as well! The investigating agencies and judges constituting the criminal justice system are a part of the same sociological system! And this trait of writing a person off assumes monstrous proportion when an innocent person is wrongly accused of the crime he or she has never committed! Unfortunately, in our country, there are not any projects/ NGO’s to help those people who have been wrongly framed. This, despite the fact that the criminal justice system of our country suffers from numerous inbuilt fallacies! As a citizen of this country and as a lawyer I am certainly interested to start a project to help those who are falsely accused! This is also because I have seen from close quarters the lives of those who have been falsely accused! Friends write them off! Family write them of!! It is important that we start a project which helps us find the truth and which eventually makes our criminal justice system a place where one truly gets justice!
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