Abraham C MathewsThe nation-wide lockdown, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, has thrown up questions about the judiciary that were so far brushed under the carpet.Take, for instance, undertrials in prisons. Many states have been mulling measures to temporarily release undertrials accused of petty offences for the reasons that over-crowded prisons had the potential to become mass-spreaders of the virus; jails are reportedly currently filled to 117 percent of its capacity. The question then asks itself — if yet-to-be convicted petty offenders can be granted bail now, why could they have not been granted the same earlier, when there was no crisis?Close Similarly, there has been a lot of noise around the Supreme Court and high courts hearing cases through video conferencing. While that is certainly a great first step, the cases taken up are few and far between, doesn’t appear to be scalable, and reserved only for the most urgent of cases. In fact, so typically of Indian courts, whether a bail plea was of the ‘most urgent’ nature itself was litigated immediately after, with the apex court staying a Rajasthan High Court decision to not list bail pleas as it was not an ‘extremely urgent matter’. related news… Read full this story
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