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Criminal justice

Sir, — The verdict in the Safdar Hashmi murder case came early this month, 14 years after he was killed. Similarly, the Naina Sahni murder case, involving the former Youth Congress president, Sushil Sharma, came to judgment eight years after she was murdered.

Now, the deeply disturbing question is, can a criminal justice system under which murder cases can take up to 14 years or more to be decided (the accused can still drag things by appealing to the higher judiciary), be really effective?

C. Antony Louis,

Mumbai

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