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Each year since 2019, the Tata Trust along with social organisations, have compiled the annual India Justice Report. The latest one, launched recently, provides some startling, and worrying contrasts when it comes to individual states. It’s a timely reminder that the justice system in India is not uniform, or on the same legal page

The recent report on prison reforms focuses on measures to decongest overcrowded prisons of the country. It also suggests electronic tracking of prisoners as a measure to manage and monitor overpopulated jailed detainees. Though electronic monitoring of accused enlarged on bail has been suggested as a reform measure, it should be adopted with caution and care

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The recent release of the Report outlines the major areas in which India falls behind in terms of justice delivery, analysing it from the perspectives of the police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid.

The Assam government started moving detainees to the Matia Transit Camp in January 2023. The Camp is the nation’s largest detention facility to imprison illegal foreigners. The Gauhati High Court deemed the state’s move to convert the Camp into a temporary prison odd and, on the surface, invalid

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Gangsters of north India have realised that the safest place for them to be is inside the prison. The prisons have become business hubs for such criminals as everything that is required to run their rackets are available inside at the “right price”. To counter this, authorities are planning to shift them to jails in south India.

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