A study has found that eight out of 10 inmates in prisons are undertrials. A majority of them are illiterate and poor with an alarmingly high number being Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis
The bench while listing the matter for further hearing on August 3 has further directed the Secretary to collect information from all the states and submit a report.
The High-Powered Committee of the Delhi High Court met on Tuesday to discuss affirmative and effective steps to prevent a Covid-19 outbreak inside jails.
A single judge bench of Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing the petition filed by Nitin Verma who claimed that despite the revision in the standard rates of wages of prisoners in June 2019 by the Government, they are getting paid in the scale of 2014.
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