Hyderabad: A two-judge panel of the Telangana High Court on Friday closed a PIL directing the state police to conclude investigation into the alleged encounter of Tangella Shruti and Vidyasagar Reddy on September 15, 2015, within six months following the guidelines on encounter cases in PUCL v. State of Maharashtra. The panel, comprising Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice J. …
The People's Union for Civil Liberties has intervened in a plea before the Calcutta High Court regarding the condition of prisons in West Bengal, intending to improve living conditions for prisoners.While the matter has been an ongoing public interest litigation since 2017, the issue came to the fore when a lawyer mentioned a plea pertaining to the pregnancies of female …
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra Government if there was any breach of security when video calls were allowed for prison inmates during the pandemic, while hearing a PIL filed by the Peoples Union of Civil Liberties seeking resumption of the video calling facility. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice VG Bisht directed to …
A two-person bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday observed that voice and video call facilities in jails, that had started during the Covid pandemic, should resume once again. The bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice VG Bisht said, "During Covid, voice and video call facilities were provided in prisons but since November, they have been stopped. …
People's Union For Civil Liberties has moved the Allahabad High Court seeking a CBI probe into the Kasganj Custodial Death Case wherein one Altaf allegedly died by suicide by tying himself to a two to three feet pipe.While the police have claimed that Altaf died by suicide while in custody, his family has suggested a foul play on the part …