Procedural Delay
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The Bail-to-Trial Gap: How India’s Undertrial Crisis Transforms Punishment Into Process
1. Introduction: The Constitutional Paradox of Preventive Incarceration. One of the cases involved Rajesh Kumar, who spent 1247 days in Tihar Jail, accused of stealing a mobile phone worth 8,000. The magistrate finally acquitted him at the end of his trial in 2019, but by then, he had lost his job as a daily wage…