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For considerable time, what the system offered to the victim was only sympathy, but with the introduction of discipline of "victimology" the concept has gained momentum and found its place in the existing Code of Criminal Procedure, when the victim was introduced by providing a definition in Section 2(wa) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1908. Since the Indian Constitution through Article 39A cast an obligation upon the State to ensure that the operation of legal system promotes justice, on the basis of equal opportunity and in particular, in providing free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes, or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or any other disabilities. The principle enshrined in Article 51A of the Constitution, to develop 'humanism' imaginatively, has the seeds of victimology in it.