Criminal justice in Bhutan: a handbook on criminal procedure

Justice is the fundamental operative principle of the universe. It informs and regulates the essential balance and harmony that underlie all phenomena in the natural world. Justice permeates and presides over the principle of right and wrong in the moral world. It affirms and promotes the ideal of an intelligible and purposeful design behind all natural and moral laws. Any deviation from the essential order of things is visited with a response relative to the degree and extent of that aberration.”

“In the affairs of the state, justice is the primary condition that validates and supports the operation of normal social and political life. Plato envisioned the establishment of the Ideal State on the foundation of justice. Justice is relevant not only to an aggrieved party or a hurt cause, but it is the fundamental criterion of the integrity of a state, the credibility of a government, the uprightness of courts and courtiers and the wholesomeness of all life.”

“No human institution carries a responsibility more sacred or bigger than that of securing and advancing the principle and practice of justice. Even as our country forges on at a rapid pace, it is crucial for the Bhutanese citizens to understand what claims they have on the fountains of justice and what responsibilities they carry as their brothers’ or sisters’ keepers, so that we all live in a just society of our own making.’

“Drangpon Lungten Dubgyur’s latest book on Criminal Justice in Bhutan is a seminal work dedicated to educating the Bhutanese citizens on the various dimensions and intricacies of criminal procedure. The work of a lawyer imbued with a deep commitment to upholding the innocence of the innocent and to taking head on the guilt of the guilty, Criminal Justice in Bhutan should be of a particular significance to our people and law-enforcement officials who have stake in justice as well as to students and scholars who are interested to know how the Bhutanese criminal justice system works. A book that truly matches the need of the times.’