A study of rights and safeguards of accused in India Dr. Tarase Ganapati M.*, Dr. Talawar Sharanappa P.** *Teaching Asst, Dept of Criminology and Forensic Science, Karnatak Science College, Dharwad (India) **Guest Lecturer, Dept of Criminology and Forensic Science, Government First Grade College, Sindagi, Bijapur Dist, Karnataka State Online published on 21 November, 2013. Abstract A person accused of an offence is put under the peril of his life and liberty. Therefore, it becomes necessary that certain safeguards should be provided to him. These protections are almost common to all civilized legal systems of the world including that of India. Many procedural rights and privileges are laid down under the Indian Constitution, 1950, Criminal procedure Code (Cr.P.C), 1973, Indian Evidence Act, 1872; which are available to the accused. Some of them have been guaranteed and made available by the Indian Constitution too. These rights have been inherited in India from common law. In this background, the main aim and objectives of this study are to know the various rights, privileges and protections available to the person who has complaint against him, who is in the custody of police and who is facing the trail in the court. The present study contains three parts namely, in the part first Rights and Safeguards in Constitution of India, in the part second discussed about the Rights provided to person of Accused under Criminal procedure Code, 9173 and Indian Evidence Act, 1872, and in last part discussed about the Recommendations of National Human Rights Commission's (NHRC) Guidelines for Arrest. The present study is based on secondary data like Books, journals, crime reports and internet surveys etc. Top Keywords Rights, Accused, Safeguards, Law, Custody, Trial. Top |