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India Justice Report 2025
April 19 , 2025
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- Southern states of India are performing the best when it comes to policing, justice delivery and prison management, according to the fourth India Justice Report.
- All the top spots in the large and mid-sized category were taken by the southern states - Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
- The West Bengal came at the bottom of the table, followed by the Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Rajasthan.
- Among the seven small states, Sikkim was the best-performer, while Goa was the laggard.
- The performance of states on the four pillars of justice -- police, prisons, judiciary and legal aid -- was considered for the ranking.
- The report highlights areas where states are making headway or falling behind in the process of fighting crime and in justice delivery.
- Nationally, the police-population ratio remained stagnant at 155 police personnel per 100,000 population, significantly below the sanctioned strength of 197.5.
- Bihar had the worst police-to-population ratio, at just 81 police per lakh people.
- In terms of providing a legal aid, Haryana has made the most improvement since the last edition of the report published in 2022.
- Over the last decade, the prison populations have surged by nearly 50%.
- The India Justice Report, started under the aegis of the Tata Trusts, brought out its first report in 2019.
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