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SC issues notice to Centre, ECI on plea seeking voting rights to undertria
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The petition sought direction to issue guidelines to set polling stations in prisons for local prisoners and to make provision for postal ballots for prisoners lodged outside their home constituencies or states.
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"Human rights the bedrock of society, imperative for global peace": CJI Kh
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Highlighting the urgent need for change, CJI Khanna said, "Criminal courts require reform. We have decriminalised a lot of laws, but a lot of work remains to be done. Laws require a change. This becomes important when we look at the number of undertrial prisoners. The national capacity of
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Centre to SC: Section 479 of BNSS, 2023 to apply to all undertrials in pen
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that Section 479 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (BNSS), the replacement of the Code of Criminal Procedure, will apply to all undertrials in pending cases that were registered before July 1.
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1,768 convicts, undertrial prisoners return to Delhi jails after COVID par
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
After Supreme Court's order, 1,768 prisoners including undertrials and convicts who were on parole since COViD pandemic, have surrendered at various jails in the national capital so far, said Delhi Prisons.
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77 pc inmates in prisons 'undertrials', says India Justice Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Only 22 per cent of the prison population are convicts while 77 per cent are 'undertrials' or people awaiting the completion of investigation or trial, the latest data published in the India Justice Report (IJR) 2022 has revealed.
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No plans right now to set up fast track courts for undertrials, says Law M
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In a written reply to the question asked by Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) MP Poonam Mahajan and Congress MP Ramya Haridas, the Centre has said that it has no plans right now we set up fast track courts for under trials.
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SC directs all convicts, undertrials released during Covid-19 pandemic to
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar issued this direction while dealing with the matter relating to the contagion of Covid 19 Virus in Prisons.
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Chhattisgarh woodcraft artist, who gave undertrials new lives, gets Padma
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Chhattisgarh's Ajay Mandavi, who teaches wood calligraphy art to jail inmates, has been honoured with the fourth highest civilian award, Padam Shri, by the Union government for excellence in art.
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Process is punishment in India's criminal justice system: CJI Ramana
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], July 16 (ANI): The Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday said that in India's criminal justice system, the process is the punishment and emphasised that from hasty indiscriminate arrests to difficulty in obtaining bail, the process leading to the prolong
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45 out of 3200 undertrials released on interim bail rearrested: Delhi Govt
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): The Delhi Government on Friday informed the Delhi High Court that it has re-arrested 45 accused out of 3,200 undertrials prisoners, who were out on interim bail on account of the second wave of COVID-19, for different offences.
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SC extends by week order staying surrender of undertrials in Delhi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended by a week its order where it had stayed an order of the Delhi High Court directing the surrender of 2,674 undertrials, who were released on interim bail in a move to prevent the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in the n
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No further extensions of interim bails to undertrials involved in heinous
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has ordered that there shall be no further extension of interim bails to those 2,318 undertrials involved in heinous crimes, who were granted interim bail by the District Courts and directed them to surrender them in a phased manner f
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