SC seeks Centre, ECI response on plea for voting rights to undertrials
“This concerns nearly five lakh undertrial prisoners,” Bhushan told the Bench.
“This concerns nearly five lakh undertrial prisoners,” Bhushan told the Bench.
Acting Chief Justice B R Sarangi and Justice M S Raman, hearing petitions of improving living conditions of convicts and undertrial prisoners (UTPs), said this in an order on Friday.
A bench headed by Chief Justice U.U. Lalit is likely to take up the PIL filed by advocate Rishi Malhotra on October 11.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed shock over non-release of a large number of undertrial prisoners languishing in Indian prisons…
Delhi's prisons, including Tihar, accommodate 14,132 undertrials and convicted prisoners as against their total capacity of 7,818, the Rajya Sabha…
