Jail Inmates also entitled to Right to Life

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in Criminal Law, High Court, Judgments, Legal Updates

Right to life is guaranteed to all including the Jail inmates. As remarkably stated in a white paper published by the British Government titled “People in Prison” that if a society wants to judge its quality of belief in the worth of individual beings, it should see its prison and probation services and the resources made available to them. In a democratic country like India where rights of its citizen is one of the most important part of the system, also thrives to ensure that each and every individual is guaranteed his fundamental right to life. In a recent judgment the Punjab...

25 January

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Husband’s anticipatory bail in 498A case from High Court

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Once at the instance of the wife (complainant), the FIR under Sections 498-A/406 IPC is registered it is better option to take Anticipatory Bail in the offences as read in the FIR. Usually, the entire family of the husband is entangled in the FIR. When the in-laws move for anticipatory bail in the court, they are usually granted anticipatory bail since they form a separate household unit distinct from that of their son (husband). The Supreme Court in various judgments have quoted that the Sections under 498a and 406 under the Indian penal code are widely misused and for no reason...

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Jail Inmates also entitled to Right to Life

Husband’s anticipatory bail in 498A case from High Court