{"id":332340,"date":"2024-10-03T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=332340"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T09:15:01","slug":"sc-holds-prison-manuals-enabling-caste-based-discrimination-as-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/10\/03\/sc-holds-prison-manuals-enabling-caste-based-discrimination-as-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"SC holds provisions of Prison Manuals\/ Rules enabling caste-based discrimination of manual labour as unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Supreme Court:<\/span> In a public interest litigation petition challenging the provisions of prison manuals of several states for allowing caste-based discrimination for division of manual labour, the three-Judge Bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud, CJI, JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, JJ. found several lacunas in the manuals which violate the Constitutional principles and held that all such provisions to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Bench directed all the states to make changes in the manuals in accordance with the judgment. The Court took suo motu cognizance of the discrimination and directed the registry to list <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In re: discrimination inside prisons<\/span> after three months and States shall submit compliance reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Condemning the discriminatory rules, the Court opined that assigning cleaning and sweeping to the marginalized and assigning cooking to higher caste violates Article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001574882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:<\/span> Press<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Constitution of India &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product\/the-constitution-of-india-coat-pocket-edition?products_id=100647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product\/the-constitution-of-india-coat-pocket-edition?products_id=100647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ebcwebstore\/images\/the-constitution-of-india-coat-pocket-edition-Gopal-Sankaranarayanan-ebc-front-cover.JPG\" alt=\"Constitution of India\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">States and Union Territories have been directed to revise and change the prison manuals to end caste-based allotment of 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