Why legal literacy is the need of the hour?

In a society like ours where various forms of crime keep on rising like esing echao, mob-justice is considered the speediest form of judgement to punish a culprit or a suspected culprit. It would be quite a paradox to initiate a talk on ‘equal justice and free legal aid’ and how citizens in India, irrespective of caste, creed, sex or religion can avail of this particular provision which is laid down in Article 39A of the constitution of India.

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In a society like ours where various forms of crime keep on rising like esing echao, mob-justice is considered the speediest form of judgement to punish a culprit or a suspected culprit. It would be quite a paradox to initiate a talk on ‘equal justice and free legal aid’ and how citizens in India, irrespective of caste, creed, sex or religion can avail of this particular provision which is laid down in Article 39A of the constitution of India.

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