Right now, in every Indian court,lying is free.
So the guilty deny, delay and wait, and 5.9 crore cases pile up. Team Satyug is a volunteer movement to make truth the default strategy and justice 10 to 20 times faster.
Read the research: five volumes, from the policy analysis to the draft Bill.
In common-law peers, most convictions come by plea.In India, 1 to 2 in 100.
Parliament brought plea bargaining into Indian law in 2006 and again in 2023. Twenty years on, almost nobody uses it, because pleading guilty earns nothing predictable, and denying costs nothing at all.
Ten times fewer trials, each half as long: justice up to 20 times faster. The same judges, the same courtrooms. The arithmetic of the design, not a forecast. A pilot measures the real figures.
Same measure for all four. US: US Courts, Judicial Business FY2025. England & Wales: CPS Annual Report 2024–25. Common-law peers, 2019: Paolini et al., JELS 2025. India (Chapter XXIII plea bargaining only): NCRB Crime in India 2019–24.
Today, lying is the smart move.Satyug makes truth the smarter one.
Pick a seat and make a choice. See what it gets you in an Indian court today, and under Satyug.
- 1Pick a seat
- 2Make your move
- 3See the payoff
Pick a seat in the courtroom.
You chose:
| Move | Today | Under Satyug |
|---|
Today the best move is to lie or delay. Under Satyug it is the truth. When every player's best move is the truth, nine in ten cases end without a trial.
Four flaws in the law,one fatal.
The victim can block any plea deal
The victim's agreement is a precondition. Dispositions die at that point, or are bought.
No sentencing guidelines
None were ever framed. Nobody can say what a plea is worth.
The accused is never told of the option
No notice at arrest, remand or charge, and only for offences up to seven years.
Lying in court goes unpunished
Only the court may complain of perjury, and it rarely does. No concession can beat a free acquittal.
Everyone wins whentruth becomes the rational choice.
Your case shouldn't outlive your patience. The goal: justice within a year.
Today's game
The other side can deny everything and wait you out. Lying costs them nothing; time costs you everything.
- 12+ years for a case to pass through three courts
- Litigants earning under ₹1 lakh spend a quarter of a year’s earnings attending court
- A false FIR or a false denial costs the liar nothing
Under Satyug
A lie on the record now costs. Admitting early earns a published discount. Most cases can end in months, with the victim compensated.
- Goal: justice within a year, with most cases resolved by plea, without a trial
- Victims heard, and compensation fixed by the court at sentencing
- A false charge goes to the Magistrate after a 15-day notice. Under the Bill, the person falsely accused can complain too
Ten to twenty times the justice. From the courts you already have.
Today's game
The State funds 99.9% of criminal cases all the way to trial, houses undertrials for years, and watches capital avoid a country where contracts take 1,445 days to enforce.
- 5.9 crore cases pending in district courts and High Courts
- 77% of prisoners are undertrials; prisons run at 130% occupancy
- 163rd of 190 countries on enforcing contracts: 1,445 days per contract
Under Satyug
Ten times fewer trials, each half as long: the same judges deliver up to twenty times the justice. Prisons decongest, and disputes and investment come home.
- Up to 20× the justice from the same judges, with no new courts needed
- ₹50,387 crore a year lost by litigants to court delays (0.48% of GDP) goes back to work
- ₹3–4 lakh crore of assets unlocked from litigation
Fewer dates. More value. A bigger, more respected profession.
Today's game
The system pays for dates, not outcomes, and asks counsel to front denials everyone in the room knows are false.
- Work billed by the date and the adjournment, not by the result
- The legal sector contributes about 0.5% of India’s GDP
- Indian companies take their disputes to Singapore and London
Under Satyug
Value moves to advice, negotiation and enforceable outcomes. Commercial disputes come home. The profession grows and earns back its standing.
- Compensation shifts from time-based to value-based
- The legal sector grows toward ~2% of GDP, in line with international norms
- Corporate law and compliance expand when contracts are enforceable
Start now,then lock it in.
Start now: the High Court's Practice Direction
- Victim heard, not vetoing. Compensation fixed by the court at sentencing; the accused may always plead guilty to the charge as framed
- Compulsory plea notice by the Magistrate, with legal-aid counsel, a right-to-silence caution and a perjury warning
- Defined stages for a plea, each with its own concession, through the Sentencing Guidelines
- Cooperation agreements and immunity
Lock in and widen: the Satyug Bill
- Those harmed by a lie can complain of it (s. 215), with leave of the court
- Wider coverage: the seven-year ceiling and blanket exclusions lifted; judicial scrutiny case by case
- A stage-graded discount schedule written into the law: larger before charge, smaller before evidence, none after
- Victim heard, no veto, in the statute, and a 30-day right to set aside an involuntary plea
Phase 1 starts under existing law: the plea pays and the lie already costs. Phase 2 makes it permanent, nationwide and wider.
The Lok Sabha and the Supreme Courtare already listening.
Three of the four actions needed to make this happen require no new law. The fourth, the Satyug Bill, is drafted.
See the roadmap →- 13 Feb 2026Lok Sabha. Resolution on record: task force on ss. 215 and 379, "10 to 20 times faster".
- 26 Feb 2026Supreme Court. Notice in WP(C) 209/2026 to the Union and all 28 States.
- 24 Mar 2026Supreme Court. Notice in WP(Crl) 111/2026 on ss. 215 and 379.
- 24 Sep 2026Supreme Court. Chief Justice's Bench grants listing in WP(C) 209/2026.
The groundwork is done.Two phases, five volumes.
Volumes 1 to 4 cover Phase 1, which needs no new law: the policy analysis, the practice directions, the mathematical model and the Supreme Court proceedings. Volume 5 is Phase 2, the draft Bill. Every number on this site comes from these volumes, and all of them are free to read.
“…Perjury has also become a way of life in the law courts. A trial Judge knows that the witness is telling a lie and is going back on his previous statement, yet he does not wish to punish him or even file a complaint against him.”Supreme Court of India, Swaran Singh v. State of Punjab, (2000) 5 SCC 668
Truth alone triumphs.Help make it the default.
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