{"id":260251,"date":"2022-03-11T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=260251"},"modified":"2022-03-11T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:47:08","slug":"prison-reforms-committee-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/prison-reforms-committee-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison reforms: Supreme Court grants six more months to committee to submit report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Supreme Court on Friday granted six months\u2019 time to the Committee on Prison Reforms headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Amitava Roy to submit its final report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Division Bench of\u00a0Justices L. Nageswara Rao and B.R.\u00a0Gavai\u00a0was hearing an application by the Centre seeking expedition of the process and directions to the committee to submit a final report within two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also read:<\/strong> Delhi municipal polls: Delhi High Court asks SEC why EVMs with VVPAT can\u2019t be used<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Having gone through the note and after hearing the Ld. Attorney General, we request the Committee to submit its final report six months from today. List the matter thereafter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attorney General K.K. Venugopal submitted that violating the order dated 25.09.2018, the Justice Roy committee has failed to furnish a final report within 12 months and now 3 years and 5 months have passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Venugopal further argued that Covid cannot be taken as an excuse for delay in report as 2 of the 4 reports have been furnished during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the AGI\u2019s submission the\u00a0(Prisons, reformatories,\u00a0Borstal\u00a0 institutions and other institutions of a like nature, and persons detained therein; arrangements with other States for the use of prisons and other institutions) is pertaining to Entry 4 list 2 and it is a subject for the\u00a0state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n