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SC directs states, UTs to furnish updated details on prisons, including overcrowdingThe Supreme Court has ordered all states and Union territories to submit updated jail statistics by May 18. This includes prison capacity, ...- Delhi crime files: Half the prison cells are filled with youth aged 21–30; Is the capital losing its future behind bars?Delhi Crime: Nearly 50% of Delhi's 18,969 prisoners are between 21 and 30 years old, with over 55% under 30. Poverty, unemployment, and the...
- Delhi's prisons severely overcrowded, 91% inmates undertrials: StudyDelhi's prisons are severely overcrowded, with undertrial inmates constituting 91% of the incarcerated population, as per the India Justice...
- New criminal laws may help reduce jail overcrowdingThe new criminal laws, known as BNSS, aim to address jail overcrowding by offering leniency to first-time offenders. Bail conditions have b...
- Speedy trial can become effective tool to address overcrowding in jails, says SC panel on prison reformsThe Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms in India has highlighted the "pitiful state of affairs" in the country's prisons, emphasizing...
- SC to pass orders on decongestion of prisons in view of 'alarming' COVID situation"The present situation is very alarming. The prayers raised last time (in March 23) needs to be considered now again," a bench headed by Ch...
- Jamia violence: Court extends interim bail of local leader Ashu Khan by 45 daysAdditional District Judge Vipin Kumar Rai granted the interim relief to Khan in two cases related to the violent protests at Jamia Nagar an...
- AgustaWestland chopper case: SC dismisses interim bail plea of Christian MichelA bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and B R Gavai, which took up the interim bail plea through video conferencing, said that as per the ...
- Never directed states, UTs to compulsorily release all prisoners: SCA bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and justices L Nageswara Rao and M M Shantanagoudar said its orders have to be followed in letter and sp...
- Union home ministry asks prisons to screen foreign inmates, use videoconferencing for kinMore than 466,084 persons are lodged in 1,318 prisons across India, according to the 2018 report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB...
- AgustaWestland: Christian Michel is a flight risk, has no roots in the society, says HC; denies bail to middlemanJustice Mukta Gupta, who conducted the hearing through video conferencing, said the apprehension of Michel that because of his vulnerable a...
- COVID-19 pandemic: SC takes suo moto cognisance of overcrowding of prisonsA bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and L N Rao issued a notice to the Director General, Prison, and chief secretary of all states and union...
- Supreme Court forms panel to bring in jail reformsThe Supreme Court on Tuesday set up a panel headed by a retired judge of the court to usher in drastic prison reforms and decongest overcro...
- Government conducting survey on women inmates in Central JailsAs part of the exercise, carried out by members of the NCW as well as NGOs, questionnaires have been sent to different jails.
- Delhi jails 'grossly' overcrowded, prisoners double than capacity: CAGThe report also brought to the notice the poor medical facilities in the jails in Delhi as over 93,224 patients had to be referred to outsi...
- 10 unnatural deaths occur in Indian jails every monthAt 5.9 unnatural deaths per 10,000 inmates, Delhi's jails clock more than twice the national rate of 2.8 per 10,000 inmates.
- Delhi High Court seeks Centre's, Delhi government's reply on under trial prisonersThe High Court has been dealing with two PILs relating to ensuring minimum human rights to inmates of Tihar Jail here.
- Undertrial prisoners should be released on bail: NHRC Chief Justice KG BalakrishnanBalakrishnan also pointed out that issue of prison reforms & improvement required in criminal justice system is a serious point of concern ...
- Indian prisons overcrowded by over one lakhPrisons across the country are bursting at the seams having to lodge about 1.10 lakh convicts and undertrials more than their capacity, wit...
- 'Land in jail' will mean something else for govt nowPlans to unlock prime prison land; high-capacity coolers in outskirts to overcome crowding.
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