The Delhi High Court has observed that prison is primarily for punishing convicts, not to detain undertrials to send out a message to the public while granting bail to an accused in the violence that took place in North East Delhi in February this year
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday while dealing with the writ petition filed by a Prisoner of Central Jail in Rohini, New Delhi, directed the Jail Superintendent to look into his complaint of being ill-treated or harassed by other inmates in collusion with Jail officials.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to interfere in the decision of the High Powered Committee set up on March 25, on the orders of the Supreme Court in order to decongest Jails in view of the outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus
The High Court of Karnataka has dismissed the petitions filed by Azim Premji, the Founder of Wipro, his wife and two others against the summons issued by an Additional City Civil and Sessions Court over the complaint filed by a Private company.