-ThePrint.in There’s been a 40% decline in disposal of cases during pandemic, a report mapping district courts’ performance showed. The study was conducted by a Delhi-based think-tank. New Delhi: The pandemic has severely affected the justice delivery system in India, causing a sharp decline in the disposal of cases, a study mapping the performance of district courts during the pandemic shows. In its latest report called ‘Data Speak: A look at the District...
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Slow wheel: Editorial on the complicated bail process of undertrial prisoners
-The Telegraph It has been estimated that 76% of all prisoners in India — 371,848 in absolute numbers — are undertrials Days after the Indian president, Droupadi Murmu, highlighted the plight of poor and tribal undertrials languishing in jails for petty crimes despite getting bail, the Supreme Court has sought details of such prisoners for formulating a national scheme for their release. This is timely. It has been estimated that 76% of...
More »What numbers don’t tell us -Maitreyi Misra
-The Hindu Prisons are meant to facilitate rehabilitation but have become disempowering spaces with a mental health crisis The latest numbers are out. 9,180 prisoners with mental illness, 150 deaths by suicide, five prisoners with schizophrenia and epilepsy have died. While we know the numbers, we do not know what is being considered as a mental illness and whether these numbers are limited to persons who are in the mental health ward, or...
More »PM Modi May Decry 'Revdi Culture' – But it Still Runs Our Political Economy -Arun Kumar
-TheWire.in There is little doubt that the practice of handing out freebies undermines both democracy and development. But the problem doesn't lie just with the opposition. Constitutional authorities in India have recently spoken about key challenges the country is facing. The Chief Justice of India (CJI) has said that there is “diminishing” space for the opposition, that there was no longer any mutual respect between the Union government and the opposition, and that...
More »UP police forms SIT to probe cases against Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair -Namita Bajpai
-The New Indian Express The SIT will be headed by Inspector General (Prisons) Preetinder Singh while IG Amit Verma will be its member, Additional Director General (Law & Order) Prashant Kumar said. LUCKNOW: In order to probe into half a dozen cases registered against Alt News Co-founder Mohammad Zubair in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, the state government has set up a special investigation team (SIT) headed by Inspector General of Police...
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