{"id":222150,"date":"2019-11-15T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=222150"},"modified":"2019-11-25T13:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:34:51","slug":"ph-hc-court-casts-obligation-on-home-secretary-and-directs-state-to-improve-living-conditions-of-the-inmates-of-jails-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/11\/15\/ph-hc-court-casts-obligation-on-home-secretary-and-directs-state-to-improve-living-conditions-of-the-inmates-of-jails-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"P&#038;H HC | Court casts obligation on Home Secretary and directs State to improve living conditions of the inmates of jails in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Punjab and Haryana High Court:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> A Division Bench of Rajiv Sharma and Harinder Singh, JJ. allowed the petition <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">seeking a survey to be conducted for the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">functioning of jails in Punjab and <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">the<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> living conditions <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">of the<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> inmates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The petitioner was a doctor posted in Central Jail, Ludhiana. The petitioner found grave irregularities in the functioning of the jail<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">,<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> such as poor quality and insufficiency of food, unhygienic cooking conditions, and kitchen staff suffering from a number of diseases. Furthermore, there w<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">ere<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> no proper supply of medicines and the inmates were charged exorbitant prices to avail of the hospital facilities, drugs and injections. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">The l<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">ack of <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">proper<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> medical aid resulted in the deaths<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> of the inmates<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">. The petitioner<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> filed for a <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">P<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">ublic <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">I<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">nterest <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">L<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">itigation (\u2018PIL\u2019)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> praying for an independent <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">investigation<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\"> into the functioning of the jails of Punjab especially in the district of Ludhiana, and prayed for orders to improve the same.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Upon investigation by a <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">Special Investigation Team<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">,<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">a report was submitted along with suggestions for the improvement of certain facilities. The present Bench upon considering the suggestions directed the State to maintain hygienic living conditions in the jail, and the kitchen. The Court also directed to provide the inmates with sufficient and hygienic food, and all the inmates suffering from diseases to be transferred to separate cells. An obligation was imposed upon the CMO and the Home Secretary for implementing the orders of the court.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><span class=\"bumpedFont15\">[Swarandeep Singh v. State of Punjab, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/q13O7Y74\">2019 SCC OnLine P&amp;H 2185<\/a>,<\/b>\u00a0decided on 31-10-2019]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab and Haryana High Court: A Division Bench of Rajiv Sharma and Harinder Singh, JJ. allowed the petition seeking a survey to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[38305,38458,38307,2832,38306],"class_list":["post-222150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-function-of-jails","tag-lack-of-proper-medical-aid","tag-living-conditions","tag-public_interest_litigation","tag-unhygenic-conditions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 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