Administration of Justice in Mizoram

Justice is dynamic/changing. It requires a just state of affairs. In alignes with morality and proper distribution of favours and losses. This is possible by a democratic social order. This book deals with two systems of justice viz., custom based on the rule of law, operating side by side, which create mess/hutch-putch. The custom based justice is uncodified. The modern legal justice is carried out by the state court as per the justice rules of 1937 Framed by the colonial rulers. Crime had previously been almost absent in the Mizo Society. Presently, crimes of different nature, (criminal and civil) are increasing owing to the enlarging money economy, the loosening of social bonds, the emergence of classes of the neo-middle rich and the poor and the concentration of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom of the social hierachy. The book emphasises more thrust on legislation and trail of cases by the State Courts rather than the District Councils' Courts, trying cases by uncodified, customary laws and also suggests to streamline the existing judical administration in order to have an uniform and impartial justice . The complete separation of executive and judiciary to achieve the objective of justice is suggested. The book, which includes fourteen articles/research papers, deals, objectively with a theoretical concept of judical administration, various issues challenges/problems and constraints pertaining to judicial administration and also provides policy insights for the future and will be highly useful and valuable. The study briefly is an invaluable guide/help to the further research on the subject.

R.N. Prasad is Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Mizoram University (Central), Aizawl. He is a former Head of the Department of Public Administration and the Dean, School of Social Sciences. He has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for well over three decades. He has participated in several local regional, national and international seminars/conferences/workshops and contributed numerous scholarly and research papers. He, being a prolific writer and devoted researcher, has to his credit more than 35 research papers and book reviews published in academic and professional journals of national and international repute and edited volumes. He has also authored, co-authored edited and co-edited a number of books. He is a member of different academic bodies of several universities, research institutes/councils/Boards and also a life member of professional associations/bodies. He is an Hony. Secretary of the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Mizoram Regional Branch, and the editor of its annual journal - Administrative Review. Prithwipati Chakraborty being an M.A. Economics and Law Graduate from Calcutta University is presently working as Secretary to the Government of Mizoram incharge of Law and Judicial, Parliamentary and District Council Affairs Departments. He has contributed several papers/articles to journals of national repute for their publication and also to seminars, conferences, workshops. He also authored several books on Law such as Laws of Disqualification and Anti-Defection, and Fifth and Sixth Schedule to the Constitution of India. He has to his credit a number of recognition in various fields from Government, Legislature, Rotary International and American Biographical Institute.