Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed that ease of justice was equally important as ease of doing business and ease of living, ...

Modi urged district judges attending the conference to speed up the release of undertrials using their offices as chairpersons of district-...

The Delhi high court was hearing various petitions concerning prisoners, including a PIL for releasing on bail those undertrial prisoners (...

Prison inmates should not be denied the vaccine because they did not have an Aadhaar card, the HC said and observed that making the documen...

Those sentenced to 10 years or more and left with six months of sentence and those sentenced to seven years and left with five months of se...

The bench suggested that undertrials awaiting trial for offences entailing maximum sentence of seven years also be extended a similar benef...

The 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...

The apex court's observations came weeks after it had expressed shock at the large number of people languishing in jails in "complete viola...

According to National Crime Records Bureau estimates, 67 per cent of the people in jails are undertrials -- those not yet convicted of any ...

Home ministry has revised the 2003 model prison manual that will now require “facilitating and allowing a final meeting between a death row...

The CIC order has come on the plea of an RTI applicant who had sought information from Tihar Jail authorities whether Undertrial Review Com...

The court said panel lawyers of DSLSA shall prepare appropriate applications for bail for all the 105 undertrial prisoners and file the sam...

For the country as a whole, the number of undertrials detained for more than five years is lower than 2,000. With a cut-off of three years,...

It is estimated that of the 3.81 lakh prisoners across the country, about 2.54 lakh, or two-third, are undertrials.

Things have improved, with the CCI restarting the decision-making process. But zero progress has been made on the fundamental reforms.

The advisory said although the percentage overcrowding in jails is steadily going down, even then 67% of the inmates in various prisons are...

Chattisgarh CM Raman Singh and the Maoists' mediators said there was no secret deal behind the release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon.