JEMTEC

India is home to 698 recognised tribes constituting 8.61% of total population. Our constitution has all adequate provisions for protection and development providing equal opportunity to tribal community. Still after seventy years if independence tribal population in our country is vulnerable in matter of access to justice. Our Indian judiciary has not been able to penetrate tribal population trust to set uniform rule of law. The root cause of this problem of dichotomy in tribal justice system and regular justice system is failure of legislature to attempt codification of tribal customary laws. This has also resulted in extinction of many old traditional customary practices which could have brought more reform in tribal justice system. Presently most tribes practice and follow their own tribal justice system and they consider regular justice system as tardy, vexatious and costly affair. Recently in 2016,in Rajya Sabha   constituted a standing committee on issue titled,“synergy ...