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Supreme Court directs states to frame policy for early release of terminally ill, elderly prisonersThe Supreme Court has mandated that every state and Union Territory devise new policies concerning the early release of elderly and termina...- 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...
- Centre will ensure financial support for poor in prisons, those who cannot afford bail amounts, says Finance Minister Sitharaman"Support for poor persons who are in prisons and are unable to afford penalty or bail amount, required financial support will be provided,"...
- CJI, PM underscore need to provide legal aid to undertrialsChief Justice of India NV Ramana and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday underscored the need to provide legal aid to undertrials lang...
- Speed up release of undertrials: PM Modi, "Ease of justice equally important as ease of doing business, living"Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed that ease of justice was equally important as ease of doing business and ease of living, ...
- Expedite release of undertrial prisoners: PM Modi, says ease of justice equally important as ease of livingModi urged district judges attending the conference to speed up the release of undertrials using their offices as chairpersons of district-...
- Accused in cases punishable with death penalty can't be considered for release: HCThe Delhi high court was hearing various petitions concerning prisoners, including a PIL for releasing on bail those undertrial prisoners (...
- Is Aadhaar mandatory for prisoners to get COVID-19 vaccine? HCPrison inmates should not be denied the vaccine because they did not have an Aadhaar card, the HC said and observed that making the documen...
- To ease congestion, convicts to be given up to 6 months’ remissionThose 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...
- Coronavirus: SC directs states, UTs to set up panel to consider release of prisoners on paroleThe bench suggested that undertrials awaiting trial for offences entailing maximum sentence of seven years also be extended a similar benef...
- 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...
- Undertrial review panel's functioning needs fine-tuning: Supreme CourtThe apex court's observations came weeks after it had expressed shock at the large number of people languishing in jails in "complete viola...
- Centre to HCs: Take decision on undertrialsAccording to National Crime Records Bureau estimates, 67 per cent of the people in jails are undertrials -- those not yet convicted of any ...
- Inform undertrials when they will be released: CICThe CIC order has come on the plea of an RTI applicant who had sought information from Tihar Jail authorities whether Undertrial Review Com...
- Women inmates in jail: Concerned HC asks DSLSA to take stepsThe court said panel lawyers of DSLSA shall prepare appropriate applications for bail for all the 105 undertrial prisoners and file the sam...
- Laws dealing with undertrials in India are flawedFor 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,...
- Undertrials who have served half of their maximum terms to be freedIt is estimated that of the 3.81 lakh prisoners across the country, about 2.54 lakh, or two-third, are undertrials.
- Graft is to be blamed for project delays that kill growthThings have improved, with the CCI restarting the decision-making process. But zero progress has been made on the fundamental reforms.
- Centre asks states to review cases of undertrialsThe advisory said although the percentage overcrowding in jails is steadily going down, even then 67% of the inmates in various prisons are...
- Prisoner release:Buying truce with MaoistsRelease of political prisoners has been a popular demand - and a populist move - in Bengal , a state ridden with political violence.
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