Set of guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court of India to surmount the discrepancies in criminal trials and set uniformity in the approaches of all session courts.The judgement came on a suo motu case of 2017 related to the “deficiencies and inadequacies” in criminal trials in the country in which it proposed to amend the criminal manual and the rules which can be incorporated in the existing ones of the High Courts. “This direction applies, specifically in respect of Draft Rules 1-3. The appropriate forms and guidelines shall be brought into force, and all agencies instructed accordingly, within six months from today,” the bench said. The process of laying down these rules was going on from 2017 and the final draft has been made ready after addressing the responses of different High Courts
Criminal Trials Guidelines Regarding Inadequacies and Deficiencies, in Re v. State of Andhra Pradesh and Others (2021) 10 SCC598