The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and Election Commission regarding a PIL seeking voting rights for undertrial prisoners. ...

The Bombay High Court granted bail to Tariq Parveen, an alleged member of Dawood Ibrahim's syndicate, citing prolonged incarceration withou...

The Bombay High Court stresses that bail is a norm. Refusal is an exception. Prolonged detention without trial equates to pre-trial punishm...

In his written reply, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of section 62(5) of the Representation ...

An undertrial prisoner's fundamental right to privacy is violated by a strip search, according to a special court in Mumbai. The court orde...

Delhi High Court has said the authorities' decision to cap the number of visits by prisoners' families, friends and legal advisers to twice...

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday underscored the need to provide legal aid to undertrials lang...

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

PSI 2020 reports that only a third of inmates eligible for early release under Section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) were r...

Human rights activist Naresh Paras, who filled the RTI application, has written to the NHRC, governor of UP and the PMO to take up the matt...

Gowda informed Lok Sabha in a written response that there are no plans to amend the Representation of People Act for the purpose.

The High Court has been dealing with two PILs relating to ensuring minimum human rights to inmates of Tihar Jail here.

The details of prisoners who are set to be released on a recent Supreme Court order should be put in public domain, the Central Information...

Balakrishnan also pointed out that issue of prison reforms & improvement required in criminal justice system is a serious point of concern ...

"After the meeting, a report be filed within two weeks thereafter. It shall contain the status of undertrial prisoners as on March 31, 2014...

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a PIL seeking direction to the Election Commission to bar jailed MPs and MLAs from casting votes i...