(1.) JUSTICE to all - the accused, the society as well as a fair chance to prove to the prosecution - is not only an integral part of the criminal justice system but it is its prime objective. This finds reiteration by the Supreme Court of India in the judgment reported at (2012) 8 SCC 263, Dayal Singh and Ors. v. State of Uttaranchal when the court emphasized thus:
(2.) IN the two trials giving rise to these appeals, these are the public duties which the learned Trial Judges have endeavoured to discharge. While adjudicating upon these appeals, it is these very duties which we have been called upon to perform.
(3.) WE may first briefly notice the case of the prosecution. The Katara family were residents of 7 Chelmsford Road, New Delhi, an official accommodation allotted to Shri Nishit M. Katara, government servant. The family consisted of his wife Nilam Katara; their elder son Nitish Katara (deceased) and a second son Nitin Katara.