New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday fast-tracked the premature release of undertrials and first-time offenders who have completed half or one-third of their maximum sentence by directing the jail superintendents across the country to process applications of all eligible prisoners under the newly enacted Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita within two months. This comes after the Centre on Friday informed …
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 …
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 …
New Delhi: Not long ago, President Droupadi Murmu made an emotional appeal. Prisons across India are witnessing a decade-high occupancy rate even as the courts disposed of cases at a significantly lower pace during covid-19, show the findings of the third India Justice Report, released today. If this wasn’t bad enough, consider this: not all sanctioned posts are filled, with …
In a bid to decongest overcrowded prisons in the State of Maharashtra and therefore prevent the spread of coronavirus in the prisons, the Bombay High Court has directed all the Judicial Magistrates to pass an order on applications seeking transfer of an inmate within 48 hours of the application being filed. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and …
