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Science And Technology: Their Relationship with Law
tential to replace the tra- products, then if one infrastructure should be
ditional method that took speeds up the machine, it developed in a way that
into account the eruption will deliver more of those will not only give momen-
and/or fusion and falling bad products. Therefore, tum to effective criminal
F sequence of teeth. A fu- if we speed up a malfunc- delivery system but will
O sion of such knowledge of tioning Justice Admin- also hasten the entire long
R Forensic Science and new- istration System, it will drawn process of investi-
E ly developed techniques simply toss up more of gation.
N will, undoubtedly, not injustice. Is that the goal
S only provide proper per- of any justice delivery IMPACT OF SCI-
I spective and dimensions, system? ENCE ON COURT AND
C but will also lead to de- COURT PROCESSES
tection of crime, and be a In the words of Justice
M great help in search of the Shayamal Kumar Sen, Science is not new to the
E truth. It will be useful in “The investigation process Indian courts. Towards the
T the prevention and control needs to be hastened; oth- end of 1989, one low-end
H of crimes and will provide erwise the criminal justice computer was installed in
O required assistance to the system will suffer”. Supreme Court of India
D parties to civil disputes, as for caveat matching. Im-
O well. Justice Sen urged that mediately thereafter, in
L research and development 1990, Justice GC Bharuka,
O IMPACT OF SCIENCE should be initiated in a as a sitting Judge at the
G ON THE JUSTICE way that would ensure Patna High Court initi-
Y DELIVERY SYSTEM that crime at the grass- ated the process of court
roots level is detected computerization. On his
Common view is that the immediately and an effec- transfer to Karnataka in
Indian justice administra- tive management system 1994, he undertook to
tion system is slow. How- should be introduced. introduce ICT (Informa-
ever, the major question tion and Communication
is, is it the primary prob- According to M P Singh, Technologies) in the entire
lem with Indian justice vice-chancellor, West judiciary of the state of
delivery system? The key Bengal National Univer- Karnataka.
issue is, is it is delivering sity Of Juridical Science,
justice at all in majority new techniques should be Presently all the courts
of cases? If a machine introduced as it will help up to the taluka level are
is faulty and makes bad in crime detection and the computerized. All the
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