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Criminal Justice System in India — The Complete Base Article for UPSC Mains

One base article that docks every criminal-justice news item — police, prisons, judiciary, and the new criminal laws (BNS/BNSS/BSA) — with 10 solved PYQs and frameworks.

Digitisation and Efficiency in the Criminal Justice System — ICJS, MeghRaj and the 2027 Deadline

Today's Hindu analysis as a software update to the CJS base article: the July 2027 ICJS rollout, the 46% digital-FIR gap, 129→154 forensic labs, and the punishment→justice shift.

Fast-Track Courts — Speedy Justice ka Wada, Ya Sirf Naya Signboard?

A fast-track court adds no judge, no courtroom and no capacity — it designates an existing judge and moves everyone else down the list. Which makes it a constitutional experiment, not a hardware upgrade: can speed, fairness and equality be delivered at once, when Article 21 demands the first two and Article 14 guards the third?

Media Trial vs Fair Trial — Verdict Pehle, Judgment Baad Mein?

The Constitution gives exactly one institution the power to say 'guilty'. When a verdict is delivered at 9 pm and the court arrives years later, the question is not whether journalism went too far — it is why the framework that already exists, from Article 19(2) to the contempt power to Sahara's postponement doctrine, is so rarely used.