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a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has been proved: members of the jury. The jury has/have been unable to return a verdict (= reach a decision). Police officers aren't usually allowed to be/ sit / serve on a jury. C1.
In a court of law, the jury is the group of people who have been chosen from the general public to listen to the facts about a crime and to decide whether the person accused is guilty or not.
- History of The Jury System in India
- Basic Concept of The Jury System
- The Nanavati Case
- Judgement
- The ‘Real’ Last Jury Trial in India
- The Gradual Decline of The Jury System
- Conclusion
- References
The jury system during trials is not a new thing in India as it was once conducted here until 1973 while the British were still in power. The establishment of such jury system was more of a western innovation which replaced the traditional Panchayati Raj system before the British came in power. Juries were basically a group of people mostly 12 in n...
The Jury System as discussed earlier consists of a group of people specialised in the field of law and who are entrusted with the task to produce a decision on the submission of relevant facts and evidences in a case trial. In this system, it is the Judge who explains to the jury about the applicable laws in a particular case and with that the jury...
The Nanavati Case, also known as KM Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra(AIR 1962 SC 605), is considered as one of the most important cases in the whole Indian legal history. This case also officially marks the end of jury trials in India. However, the Nanavati case is not the last case which was heard by a jury. The last case to be heard by a jury in ...
The Court in this case held that the murder was a well-processed and thoughtful one, which certainly did not attract Exception 1 of Section 300 of the Indian Penal Code as the accused also failed to bring the case under General exceptions by adducing evidence. For this, the Court found the accused guilty under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code a...
This case about the last jury trial in India is not so talked about and for which very few people know about this case. This incident took place in Kolkata, West Bengal during the election periods where two communist activists namely ‘Prakhar Chandra De’ and ‘Rabindranath Chandra De’ were charged with the murder of Dipak Sarkar in 1967. The year of...
The main reasons which led to the decline of the jury system in India and in the world is Biasness and partiality. In such cases, the jury tends to make a verdict in favour of a certain party irrespective of the relevancy of facts and evidence provided to them. These things may happen due to the biases of the majority of the jury, the emotional cor...
Before the Jury trial system came into existence, all the legal disputes were resolved through the Panchayati Raj system in India. In such a system, there were elected people named as ‘Panchayats’ and were vested with the executive and judicial powers. However, when the British came to India, the highly looked down upon the Panchayati Raj system an...
1. countable noun. In a court of law, the jury is the group of people who have been chosen from the general public to listen to the facts about a crime and to decide whether the person accused is guilty or not.
Jury meaning in Hindi (हिन्दी मे मीनिंग ) is निर्णायक समिति.English definition of Jury : a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law
a group of people who have been chosen to listen to all the facts in a trial in a law court and to decide if a person is guilty or not guilty, or if a claim has been proved. जूरी, न्यायपीठ. members of the jury न्यायपीठ के सदस्य. The jury has/have been unable to return a verdict (= reach a decision).
A trial is the legal process in which a judge and jury listen to evidence and decide whether a person is guilty of a crime. You say that the person being judged is on trial or that they stand trial.
