The PIL urged immediate judicial intervention to address what she described as a “humanitarian crisis” affecting hundreds of undertrial prisoners from the Union Territory.
Prisoners demonstrating good behavior would now be eligible for an early release from jails in Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of Janajatiya Gaurav Diwas (Tribal Pride Day) too each year on 15 November.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Tuesday chaired a review meeting on the implementation of three new criminal laws in Uttarakhand in the presence of state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
He said this while interacting with media persons at Srinagar railway station from where he traveled to Sangaldan in the train that was virtually flagged off by PM Narendra Modi from a function in Jammu.
The Delhi government approves the formation of a committee to study technology and move forward towards its use.
DG, Jail, Anand Kumar on Tuesday said that the entire exercise would be completed by the end of February this year.
The inmates, especially women with children, have never got the care and attention from governments that are laid down in the constitution as their fundamental rights, not to mention hygiene, proper sanitation facilities, access to adequate water, clean drinking water, etc.
“The idea is to inculcate a habit of learning and education and to provide them an opportunity to utilize their time in prison in a productive manner,” says Jails Minister Harjot Singh Bains.
"We should hate crime and not the criminal. In such a situation, a better environment is being given to the prisoners in the jail premises for their improvement," said the CM.
One of the suggestions made by the experts for reducing the overcrowding in jails is that UTPs arrested for offences where the maximum sentence is 7 years or less, should be forthwith released on PR Bond, when unable to fulfill the monetary or ‘property’ bail condition, the HC bench observed.
