The judgment is not the destination. It is a beginning. India needs:
a) A statutory right to fair investigation under Article 21, with enforceable timelines.
b) A witness protection law with teeth, not schemes.
c) Forensic autonomy and capacity – every district, every golden hour.
d) Police reforms – operational autonomy, accountability and insulation from political pressure.
e) CBI and CID autonomy – independent of the executive’s daily whims.
f) Victim rights legislation – the right to be heard, to be informed, to be represented.
g) Judicial infrastructure – more courts, more judges, more forensic labs.
h) Legal education – ethics, victimology, forensic science, constitutional morality.
Without these, the next Gowda will be written. And the next father will wait.