VICTIM COMPENSATION SCHEME: A STEP TOWARDS PROVIDING JUSTICE TO THE VICTIMS

Abstract

More than four decades back, J. Krishna Iyer spoke that it is the weakness of our jurisprudence that victims of crime and the distress of their dependents of the victim do not attract the attention of law. In fact, the victim compensation is still the vanishing point of our criminal law. Besides only punishing the criminal, our criminal justice system should do something to secure the position of victim in the society. Hence, victim is a forgotten party to the criminal justice system. Awarding monetary compensation cannot bring back the loss victim has suffered in society. Part III of the Constitution which consists of fundamental rights and Part IV which deals with Directive Principles of State Policy, form the bulwark for a new social order in which social and economic justice would blossom.