Cauvery saga continues, SC ordesr 2,000 cusecs released: “On Monday, a high-level panel suggested doing away with ‘outdated and unscientific water application techniques’ to resolve the Cauvery wrangle, saying both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu were facing water shortage, creating unemployment and financ...

When an undertrial gets produced in court thrice a year it costs the government Rs 1,000. But now, undertrials need not be produced in courts as trial court proceedings can go ahead through video conferencing, which will help the government save Rs 100 crores per year. The facility is being installe...

The Delhi high court was on Monday informed by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DLSA) that 51 women out of 152 women undertrial prisoners, who have been languishing in Tihar jail for more than six months or completed half of their sentences in lesser offences, have been released on bail. Fi...

The Delhi high court yesterday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments on the deplorable conditions of undertrial prisoners, including women and the mentally challenged, in jails here. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw asked for responses to filed by March 5...

The NHRC has issued notice to Uttar Pradesh Police over the alleged torture of an under-trial prisoner after he refused to bribe the jailor in the states’ Mahoba district, a statement said Friday. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel took suo motu cognizance of a media report published ...

In a bold move the Supreme Court today tried begin solving the national undertrial prisoner crisis, by ordering the release of all those in jail for more than half their charged sentence who’ve yet to see a trial. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha ordered all districts’ judic...

Katju NGO, with “mandate of the people”, to be inaugurated on 15 April.

Over 7 lakh undertrial prisoners have been released in the last year-and-a-half following a joint initiative by the government and High Courts of India, according to law minister Veerappa Moily, seeking to reduce prison populations.

The Indian criminal justice system is near to breaking point as 300,000 people or 70 per cent of India’s prison population consists of those awaiting trial facing a morass of judicial delays, according to a research paper discussing the current state of the Indian criminal justice delivery system.