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[h=1]Lot of man-power is being spent for escorting these undertrials to the courts concerned on the days of trial…..[/h][h=1]Besides man-power, it also requires vehicle for transportation, driver, fuel, etc[/h][h=1]Why not locate such Courts inside the prison complex….?[/h][h=1]This will save time, manpower and other costs.[/h][h=1]I have seen special courts functioning inside Tihar Jail.[/h][h=1]Jails In India Are Overflowing Because These Basic Legal Rights Are Denied To Prisoners[/h][h=2]Two in every three prisoners are undergoing trial.[/h]
Two out of three prisoners in India are still undergoing trial, and a quarter of them have been in prison for over a year without being convicted of any crime because of routine violations of their legal rights, a new report has found. According to the report, tens of thousands of people are trapped in jails because they don't have access to good lawyers (in some cases any lawyers), or simply because there is not enough infrastructure for them to actually have a court hearing in time.
"This proportion has not budged for several years despite various Supreme Court judgments, executive guidelines and legal reforms," said Asmita Basu, Programmes Director, Amnesty International India, in a press statement while launching the report on pre-trial detention in the country.
The report, based on replies to nearly 3,000 Right to Information (RTI) applications to every district and central prison in the country and to various state government departments, found various reasons why the the undertrial population in Indian prisons continue to remain twice the number of actual convicts.
For instance, in many states, there is a severe shortage of police 'escorts' to take undertrials to court for their hearings. On an average, over 5,000 undertrials miss their trial hearings in Rajasthan because lack of such escorts. The number is around 1,500 for Uttar Pradesh and almost 2,500 in Karnataka.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/0...gal-rights_a_23027878/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage
Two out of three prisoners in India are still undergoing trial, and a quarter of them have been in prison for over a year without being convicted of any crime because of routine violations of their legal rights, a new report has found. According to the report, tens of thousands of people are trapped in jails because they don't have access to good lawyers (in some cases any lawyers), or simply because there is not enough infrastructure for them to actually have a court hearing in time.
"This proportion has not budged for several years despite various Supreme Court judgments, executive guidelines and legal reforms," said Asmita Basu, Programmes Director, Amnesty International India, in a press statement while launching the report on pre-trial detention in the country.
The report, based on replies to nearly 3,000 Right to Information (RTI) applications to every district and central prison in the country and to various state government departments, found various reasons why the the undertrial population in Indian prisons continue to remain twice the number of actual convicts.
For instance, in many states, there is a severe shortage of police 'escorts' to take undertrials to court for their hearings. On an average, over 5,000 undertrials miss their trial hearings in Rajasthan because lack of such escorts. The number is around 1,500 for Uttar Pradesh and almost 2,500 in Karnataka.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/0...gal-rights_a_23027878/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage
