Ishaan, B.A. LL.B., DES Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College, Pune ABSTRACT Somewhere inside Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, tucked under the broader guarantee of life and personal liberty, sits the right to a fair and speedy trial. It is one of those rights everyone agrees with in principle and almost nobody experiences in practice. This paper looks at why criminal trials in India take so long, working through the structural, procedural, and administrative reasons behind the delay, and...