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The Feared: A wake-up call to the gross human rights violations inflicted on thousands of undertrials
The Feared is a collection of interviews conducted by Neeta Kolhatkar with 11 political prisoners and, in some cases, their loved ones. Through these conversations, she vividly portrays their...
SC, once again, seeks DLSA intervention to ensure that under trials unable to provide surety are released from prison
A failure to provide bail bonds or surety is a common occurrence leading to many under trials languishing in jails, despite securing bail
In jail in spite of bail, 1,641 inmates to be released with govt’s financial assistance: Maharashtra
The state government has taken the step to offer legal and financial help to “as many as 1,641 prisoners”, who, in spite of being granted bail, are languishing in jail for want of assistance to complete formalities
Process should not become the punishment, keeping people behind the bars can’t be the solution: SC judge SK Kaul
Justice Kaul advised Trial Court Judges to handle bail pleas with urgency
Undertrials three times the number of convicts in UP jails
Nearly 850 undertrials have been behind bars for over 10 years without being pronounced guilty
Structured discrimination has ensured 21 % of undertrial population is SC, 17.4 % Muslim and 34.3 % are OBCs; Justice Muralidhar
Indian laws are structured to discriminate against the poor, says Orissa HC chief justice
SC grants bail to murder undertrial jailed for 9 years
The top court opined that there was no likelihood of the trial being completed soon
SC grants bail to undertrial in prison for 12 years without trial
The court also directed that the trial be concluded within 6 months
Delhi jails most crowded; number of unnatural deaths on the rise: Prison report 2019
Undertrials still dominate the inmates in Indian jails, here’s a look at how prisons have fared in 2019
Take suo motu action for release of undertrials, Centre urges HCs
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New Delhi: Expressing concern over the increasing number of...
When did the killing of men whose guilt had not been proved become a matter of national pride?
The SIMI jailbreak in Bhopal and the subsequent encounter...