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Gangsters of north India have realised that the safest place for them to be is inside the prison. The prisons have become business hubs for such criminals as everything that is required to run their rackets are available inside at the “right price”. To counter this, authorities are planning to shift them to jails in south India.

A study has found that eight out of 10 inmates in prisons are undertrials. A majority of them are illiterate and poor with an alarmingly high number being Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis 

The Supreme Court while rejecting the default bail application of activist Gautam Navlakha had observed embracing the international practice of putting the accused under house arrest in deserving and suitable cases as a means to decongest prisons.

The Supreme Court will tomorrow hear the suo motu writ petition for dealing with the crisis arising out of coronavirus in prisons and remand homes.

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on the issue of installation of CCTVs in police stations across the country.

A bench of Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi issued notice to the Delhi government and others on a petition challenging the High Court order and sought reply.

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