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FAILURE TO PROVIDE LEGAL AID TO THE ACCUSED
19. After having perused the record of the case, we found a very disturbing feature. It is about the failure of the State to provide timely legal aid to the appellant. The other issue is about the quality of legal aid. Apart from provisions of Article 21 and Article 39A of the Constitution of India, the law on the issue of the right to legal aid has been evolved by this Court through its landmark decisions. This Court's first well-known decision is in the case of Hussainara Khatoon (IV) v. Home Secy., State of Bihar3. In Paragraph 7, this Court held thus: