Tag: Undertrials

India’s Prisons: 95.84% male population, highest number of convicts and under trials languishing in UP prisons

Insights from Statistical Prison Demographics: Recent data provided by MHA unveils inmate gender disparity and religious distribution, state of Tamil Nadu has the highest number of detainees

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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