Over 73 pc inmates in AP jails are under trial prisoners: NCRB
2 years, 3 months ago

Over 73 pc inmates in AP jails are under trial prisoners: NCRB

Deccan Chronicle  

Vishakapatnam: Over 73 per cent of inmates in Andhra Pradesh jails were undertrials, of which over 50 per cent were either illiterate or school dropouts. The politicians as well as the legal fraternity underlined that most of the undertrial prisoners are poor or from middle-class families and they have appealed to state governments to release them on bail whenever possible. Of the total 7,950 prison inmates in Andhra Pradesh, 5,831, including 312 females, were found to be undertrial prisoners, 2,104 were convicts, nine were detenues and six were others as per the NCRB’s prison statistics in India-2021. The data related to the education profile of the undertrials have revealed that of the 5,831 undertrial prisoners in the state, 1,641 were illiterate, 2,437 were below Class-X, 456 were graduates and 84 postgraduates.

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In most states, jail is more the norm, not bail
10 months ago

In most states, jail is more the norm, not bail

Hindustan Times  

Faced with a matter from Bihar, where an application for anticipatory bail had not been decided for a year, the Supreme Court pressed all high courts to scrupulously follow its guidelines for giving bail and disposing applications swiftly, within two weeks if possible. However, Prison Statistics of India 2022 say 74% or four lakh people in India’s 1,330 prisons are …

Too many undertrials in jails raise questions
1 year, 2 months ago

Too many undertrials in jails raise questions

Hindustan Times  

There are 1,319 prisons across the country. Responding to the obvious injustice of the situation, the National Legal Services Authority on September 18 relaunched a special nationwide campaign to reduce the number of undertrial prisoners. At the launch, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul exhorted the Supreme Court ’s own special creation, the Undertrial Review Committees to urgently identify undertrial prisoners eligible …

Govt aid for poor prisoners welcomed
1 year, 10 months ago

Govt aid for poor prisoners welcomed

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: A 26-year-old man continues to languish in jail despite being granted bail as he could not pay the surety deposit demanded by the court. But finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement to provide support to poor prisoners, for penalty or surety, will come as a huge relief to the accused and many others who are in a similar situation. In …

Supreme Court presses need for reform on tedious bail processes
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court presses need for reform on tedious bail processes

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court has been reaching out to the government to “think out of the box” and not fight every case of bail all the way up to the top court. Recently, Justice Kaul, speaking at a conference in Varanasi, said the inflow of bail and remission cases to the Supreme Court was so high that “some kind of revolution” …

Indian jails are overcrowded with pretrial and undertrial prisoners from poor and marginalised communities
2 years ago

Indian jails are overcrowded with pretrial and undertrial prisoners from poor and marginalised communities

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 14, 2022 18:00 IST Since there was no one to furnish a Rs.30,000 surety bond, Jai Parkash, 47, spent over 22 years in judicial custody without a trial. In response to a writ petition filed against his illegal detention, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court observed on September 19, 2022, that “the allegations if taken at their …

Nearly 76% of UP’s prison population is of undertrials: Report
2 years, 4 months ago

Nearly 76% of UP’s prison population is of undertrials: Report

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW Over 85,000 undertrials, close to 76% of the state’s total prison population, are languishing in jails in Uttar Pradesh. On Saturday, speaking at the first All-India District Legal Services Authorities’ meet in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also urged the country’s judiciary to speed up release of undertrials who were languishing in jails, awaiting legal aid. Undertrials outnumbered convicts …

Supreme Court grants bail to 97 convicts in UP jails for serving over 20 yrs in prison
3 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court grants bail to 97 convicts in UP jails for serving over 20 yrs in prison

India Today  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted ad interim bail to 97 convicts serving life imprisonment in Agra and Varanasi central jails in Uttar Pradesh for more than 20 years. The Supreme Court also issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and sought a reply in three weeks. Since the petitioners have been in jail for over 20 years, they …

"Can't Equate Undertrials With Convicts": Uttarakhand Prisoner Moves Supreme Court Against State HPC's Decision
3 years, 7 months ago

"Can't Equate Undertrials With Convicts": Uttarakhand Prisoner Moves Supreme Court Against State HPC's Decision

Live Law  

An undertrial prisoner from Uttarakhand has moved the Supreme Court averring that to equate undertrials with convicts is an incorrect way to consider the cases of prisoners on parole as quiet obvious an undertrial is presumed to be innocent till he is proven guilty by a trial court. Further, the plea avers that based on the Supreme Court directions, the …

Data | 70% prisoners in India are undertrials
4 years, 3 months ago

Data | 70% prisoners in India are undertrials

The Hindu  

At the end of 2019, more than one lakh people were lodged in Indian prisons as undertrials for more than a year. The share of undertrials lodged in prisons for more than a year has increased over time as the percentage of cases pending judgment in courts has also increased sharply. Click to remove AMP mode Pending cases pile up …

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