-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Criticising the apathy of states and Union Territories toward prisoners' human rights in overcrowded Jails, the Supreme Court warned directors general of prisons of contempt of court action if they failed to submit plans within two weeks to decongest Jails, which were packed to 150% of their capacity, and in one case at 609%. Referring to overcrowding of Jails, for which the SC has been unsuccessfully...
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Gujarat recorded 55 custodial deaths in 2017; Ahmedabad topped list with 15 -Ashish Chauhan
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: The answer of the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to an RTI (Right to Information) query has revealed a shocker: Gujarat recorded 55 custodial deaths in 2017. Ahmedabad city topped the chart with 15 deaths in custody — two in police custody and 13 at the Sabarmati central jail. The RTI application — filed by a human rights activist from Mehsana, Kaushik Parmar — also revealed that...
More »4 states, one UT bring down pendency of 10-year-old cases to almost zero -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For the first time, as many as four states and a Union Territory have managed to bring down cases pending for over 10 years in their subordinate courts to almost zero. It's not a mean achievement, considering that decade-old cases in the country account for 23 lakh, or almost 9% of all cases pending in the subordinate courts. Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Chandigarh are...
More »Six charts explain how undertrial prisoners in India are denied the right to fair trial -Vinita Govindarajan
-Scroll.in They are rarely produced in court and scarcely given legal aid, finds Amnesty International India. On Wednesday, Amnesty International India published a damning report on the state of undertrials in the country. The report, Justice Under Trial: A Study of Pre-trial Detention in India, analysed data available with the National Crime Records Bureau and records collected by the human rights organisation from the country’s 500-odd district and central Jails through...
More »Delhi, Goa, Maharashtra spend least on prisoner's meals: NCRB -Zeeshan Shaikh
-The Indian Express Nagaland spent highest per day on prisoners at Rs 139.22; Delhi lowest at Rs 31.31 The governments of Delhi, Goa and Maharashtra spent the least per day on three meals given to a prisoner in 2015, much lower than the national average of Rs 52.42, data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has shown. With the Bombay High Court recently directing the Maharashtra government to take steps to improve...
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