{"id":75461,"date":"2016-10-03T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=75461"},"modified":"2016-10-29T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T07:35:53","slug":"states-and-union-territories-directed-to-prepare-plan-of-action-for-improvement-of-prison-conditions-by-31st-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2016\/10\/03\/states-and-union-territories-directed-to-prepare-plan-of-action-for-improvement-of-prison-conditions-by-31st-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"States and Union Territories directed to prepare plan of action for improvement of prison conditions by 31st March, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court<\/strong>: \u00a0The Bench of Madan B. Lokur and R.K. Agrawal, JJ showed it\u2019s distress over the conditions prevalent in the prisons and said that even though this Court has held on several occasions that prisoners both under trials and convicts have certain fundamental rights and human rights, little or no attention is being paid in this regard by the States and some Union Territories including the National Capital Territory of Delhi.<\/p>\n

Stating that certainly fundamental rights and human rights of people, however they may be placed, cannot be ignored only because of their adverse circumstances, the Court issued the following directions:<\/p>\n