Victim’s compensation has always been the weeping beggar at the door of criminal
justice. Although, it is an age old concept but its development on more scientific lines and
also as branch of criminology has begun since a few decades ago. Several countries have
taken up the different schemes of payment of compensation to their victims of crime. These
are taken through different legislative measures. In India as well there are different statutory
provisions in criminal justice under which the compensation can be awarded to the victim of
crime, viz. Fatal Accident Act, 1855, Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 and Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973.