CBSE Class 8 Answered

Some guidelines issued by the Supreme Court of India which should be followed by the police for a for trial of the accused are:

• While arresting or questioning the accused, the police officers should bear a proper and visible tag stating his name and designation.
• A memo of arrest should be shown and signed by at least one witness while arresting an accused.
• A person detained by the police for interrogations has the right to inform a relative or a friend.

• All civil cases and criminal cases should be held in an open court.
• The accused should be provided with a lawyer by the state if he/she is unable to engage a private lawyer.
• The lawyer or an advocate of the accused should be given opportunities to cross-examine all the prosecution witnesses and to present their own witnesses.
• The judge has to decide matters on the basis of evidences which are presented before him in the court.