Victim Compensation And Criminal Jurisdiction

Abstract

Victim's compensation has always been the begging at the criminal justice system's door. Even if the idea is ancient, it has only been developed recently as a field of criminology and along more scientific lines. Numerous nations have implemented various compensation plans for their victims of criminal activity. These are implemented through various legislative actions. The 1958 Probation of Offenders Act, the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure, and the 1855 Fatal Accident Act are among the various criminal justice statutes in India that allow compensation to be given to victims of crime. The current Code provisions, however, do not establish an encouraging one. The victim must wait for the appellate round to end before receiving any compensation granted under this Section following a typically drawn-out trial that lasts an average of eight to ten years. It is important to remember that trial courts have not always made extensive use of the authority granted to them by Section 357 of the Criminal Procedure Code. This country's statute book has included the requirement for compensation payment for a sizable amount of time. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem that criminal courts have paid any attention to the aforementioned clause or used the authority granted to them by it.