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Bengaluru: More women are now in the justice system, but they remain mostly clustered around the lower levels. Further, only one state--Karnataka--has met its caste-based reservation in the police forces. These are the findings from the fourth edition of the India Justice Report (IJR) 2025. The report derives the rankings based on the states’ performance on four pillars--police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.

Bengaluru: The five south Indian states--Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu--in that order, ranked the best among India’s 16 large and mid-sized states on justice delivery, according to the fourth edition of the India Justice Report (IJR) 2025. While Karnataka retained its position at the top of the charts, Uttar Pradesh improved its ranking, from 18th among the large states in the previous three editions to 17th this year, while West Bengal was relegated to bottom.

Bengaluru: Following the uproar and the widespread protests after the August 2024 rape and murder of a medical professional in Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital, there were demands for death penalty for the accused.