As India’s courts went virtual, lack of technology in jails became a major hurdle to justice
About 40% of prisons had no video conferencing facilities, a new report says. Representational image. | Sam Panthaky / AFP
Only 60% of India’s jails had video conferencing facilities just before the Covid-19 pandemic struck, finds a report released by
Tata Trusts. Less than half of all states and Union Territories had these facilities in 90% of their jails.
As in many countries, India’s Supreme Court
directed in April 2020 that court proceedings be conducted via
video-conferencing to minimise physical appearances and enable social distancing. However, India’s justice systems were not fully equipped to deal with the emergency, the
TI 2020 report negates govt’s claim of old data
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January 29, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The PTI government claims that the data used by Transparency International (TI) for its 2020 global report on corruption is from the tenure of the PML-N government but even a cursory look at the report negates what the media czars of the regime are propagating.
According to the TI’s latest report, the following 13 data sources were used to construct the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020:
1. African Development Bank Country Policy and Institutional Assessment 2018
2. Bertelsmann Stiftung Sustainable Governance Indicators 2020
3. Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation Index 2020
4. Economist Intelligence Unit Country Risk Service 2020
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked 124 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020 released on Thursday by the Transparency International, as the country’s score has lowered to 31 from 32 out of 100 from the last year.
Pakistan’s ranking in 2019 was 120 among 180 countries and its rise to 124 indicates that the perception of corruption in the public sector has slightly worsened.
The country has also scored less than last year in two categories, Rule of Law Index and Varieties of Democracy, due to which Pakistan’s score in CPI 2020 has been reduced by one.
The questions asked by World Justice Project in connection with Rule of Law Index and Varieties of Democracy are about corruption of government officials viz. legislature, executive, judiciary, police and military, explained chairman of Pakistan chapter of Transparency International, Sohail Muzaffar.