According to the ‘India Justice Report 2019’ Maharashtra has topped the list of 18 large-medium States in the overall first-ever ranking of Indian States on justice delivery. Maharashtra is followed by Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Haryana.
In this category, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are at the bottom, while among seven smaller States, Goa leads the group.
The report was released by he Tata Trusts in collaboration with Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, among others.
The report says that even the best performing States scored less than 60% in their performance on capacity across the police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.
It says that the country has about 18,200 judges with about 23% sanctioned posts vacant, notes the report, adding that women are poorly represented in these pillars, constituting just 7% of the police.
Basis of Ranking
The ‘India Justice Report 2019’ is based on publicly available data from different government entities on the four pillars of justice delivery — police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.
