'Failure of judicial system': SC on 45-year-old case

SC frees bedridden convict as double murder case takes 44 years through courtsNEW DELHI: It took a lower court 22 years to complete trial in a double murder case and another 22 years for Jharkhand high court to decide the appeal, and during the long proceedings, five of six accused died and the sole surviving bed-ridden convict in his 70s is fighting a legal battle in Supreme Court from jail.Terming the inordinate delay in deciding the case a failure of the judicial system, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran suspended the sentence of the convict and allowed him to come out of jail on bail. It also decided to examine the reason why the trial court and HC took so long in deciding the case of double murder, which took place in 1981.The said case projects failure of the jud