In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The way criminal justice is designed and administered today ...............serves any of the purposes for which it is set up: towards securing life and property. It does not ...............criminals because of the delay and uncertainties involved in its processes and ridiculously ineffective punishments it imposes
............those few who get convicted. It provides wide discretion to the police and the prosecution, .............the system vulnerable to corruption and manipulation and endangering basic ........of innocent citizens.
today .............serves any of the purposes for which it is set up: towards securing life and property.