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Dec 22, 2021 · Witness protection in India. Witness protection has become a raging issue in India. In the case of Swaransingh v. the State of Punjab, (1957) the Court held that in a criminal case evidence is admissible in law. To provide such evidence, witnesses are important.
Dec 31, 2018 · The 198th Report titled “Witness Identity Protection and Witness Protection Programmes” emphasized that the witness protection scheme need not be limited to cases of terrorism or sexual offences but should extend to all serious offences, thereby increasing the ambit of its applicability and functioning.
Witness protection is security provided to a threatened person providing testimonial evidence to the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during, and after trials, usually by police.
Oct 3, 2024 · The Witness Protection Scheme in India, launched in 2018, is a critical framework designed to ensure the safety and security of witnesses involved in sensitive legal cases, particularly where their testimony might put their lives at risk.
Feb 9, 2021 · This post highlights the roadblocks to honest witness testimonials and undertakes a historical navigation through law commission reports, statutory provisions, judicial decisions, and the Witness Protection Scheme 2018 to establish the current legal framework for witness protection in India.
Feb 6, 2019 · The Supreme Court on December 5, approved the Witness Protection Scheme 2018 which aimed at enabling a witness to depose fearlessly and truthfully. While the scheme is pending in the Parliament, the Supreme Court has ordered to imply the scheme immediately in all the states and the scheme would be the law of the land.
This research paper aims to analyze the witness protection scheme in India, identify the key issues and challenges associated with its implementation, and provide recommendations for improving the existing framework. Keywords: Witness Protection, Protection scheme, Effectiveness, Implementation Challenges.
Nov 13, 2020 · This article is an attempt to analyse the efforts of the judiciary and the legislature in coming up with laws and guidelines rendering protection to the witnesses and to also observe the loopholes still existing in the Indian justice system in respect to the protection of witnesses.
This essay addresses the urgent need to introduce a statutory provision for witness protection, at the same time keeping in mind that implementing such a legislation would be an overwhelming task in an over-populated country like India with an understaffed police force.
The United States Federal Witness Protection Program (WPP), [1] also known as the Witness Security Program or WITSEC, [2] is a witness protection program codified through 18 U.S. Code § 3521 and administered by the United States Department of Justice.
