Our project, titled "Access to Justice", chiefly revolves around three main themes: Education, equality, and access to justice, which collectively condense into the cause of empowering undertrials and prisoners, a large majority of whom hail invariably from the underprivileged sections of society, in their quest for legal justice. The famous aphorism “justice delayed is justice denied” succinctly summarizes the
incongruous dichotomy plaguing the Indian justice system vis-à-vis the underprivileged. On one hand, we have rich politically-connected tycoons who, despite defrauding common people of millions, are still at large without any fear of judicial reprisals for their misdeeds. On the other hand, socioeconomically
underprivileged victims of the legal process have been languishing in jails since time immemorial, with no recourse to the justice system. This ever-widening gulf between the law on paper and the law in operation makes a mockery of justice
and the ideals of equality, and in turn, has allowed the dream of the drafters of the Indian Constitution of an egalitarian legal system, embodied in the sacrosanct chapter on fundamental rights to be rendered into a meaningless farce. Equality before law goes beyond mere legal aspects. It is an intersectional ideal, with many socio-economic connotations. If a person cannot read and write, it would be anachronistic to say that all persons are equal before the eyes of law.