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by tn13 3877 days ago
Court system is incompetent because of constitution. Indian constitution is ridiculously complex lengthy and takes a very "law to fix everything" stand compared to something like American constitution which places liberty of individuals at core.

Courts waste a lot of time on technicality and morality rather than pure pragmatism and sense of justice. For example a murder in India is not just a murder. Depending on the gender, age, reasons, motives there are at least 45 different laws that can be applied. Murder out of religious superstition would warrant a totally different legal approach than say murder in domestic abuse because at core the court is not looking at it as violation of person's right to life.