ORDER :

Anoop Kumar Dhand, J.

Cognizance & Objectives of Criminal Procedure:-

“Criminal law serves the purpose of maintaining law and order by providing predictability. It protects individual rights. Criminal law makes it possible to resolve conflicts and disputes between quarreling citizens. It provides a peaceful, orderly way to handle grievances. It also provides protection, to society from criminals, who inflict harms to others. For this there are penal law which prohibit doing of certain acts by declaring those as offences and punishable with penalty. To put in other words, Criminal law deals with offences and helps to protect the society from falling into the state of anarchy.

This part of law is substantive law but for implementing it someone is to be authorized who can punish the guilty by adopting certain specified procedure. This aspect is dealt with by other part of law, i.e., procedural law.

Procedural law provides machinery for the implementation of substantive criminal law. In absence of procedural laws, the substantive laws are of no use. Without it no one will be able to know the way how the offenders will be prosecuted and by whom. In fact both the laws are complementar