The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi Government to respond to a public interest litigation seeking conjugal visitation rights for the prisoners lodged in various jails in the national capital. A.
A division bench of Justices Anuja Prabhudessai and RM Joshi held that providing proper medical treatment and facilities to the prisoners is the duty of the State government.
The Court reiterated that the object of furlough rules is to enable prison inmates maintain their sense of sociability and to avoid ill-effects of continuous prison life.
Mohammed Ameerul Islam, the convict sentenced to death by a Kerala court for the rape and murder of a Dalit law student, moved the Supreme Court on Monday requesting that he be transferred from Kerala to Assam.