New Delhi, March 11 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday emphasised that the constitutional guarantee of a speedy trial is meant not only to protect undertrials from indefinite incarceration but also to ensure timely justice for victims and their families, as it expressed concern over the prolonged pendency of criminal trials in Jammu and Kashmir. Hearing a matter relating to delays in a murder trial, a bench of the court said that it was "extremely disappointed" to learn that as many as 351 sessions trials, involving 585 accused people, in the UT have remained pending for more than five years. What particularly troubled the court was that most of these cases - 235 in all - are still stuck at the stage of recording oral evidence of prosecution w...