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Despite constitutional guarantees of free legal aid and speedy justice, a large number of undertrial prisoners in India remain incarcerated because legal assistance often reaches them too late. Examine the causes of delayed legal aid, its socio-economic consequences, international human-rights obligations, existing government initiatives and the reforms necessary to ensure timely access to justice.
1. Undertrial prisoners are persons detained while their criminal proceedings are pending, without conviction in those cases. NCRB's Prison Statistics India 2022 recorded 4,34,302 undertrials, constituting approximately 76% of India's prison population.
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Examine delayed legal aid in India's undertrial detention system, constitutional protections, socio-economic costs, NALSA reforms, and international human-rights standards for timely justice access.
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