2020 (3) TMI 1264

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.... ORDER CM APPL. 10238/2020 (exemption) Allowed, subject to just exceptions. W.P.(C) 2945/2020 1. The present PIL seeks directions to the respondent No.1/Ministry of Law and Justice, respondent No.2/Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, respondent No.3/Chief Secretary, GNCTD, respondents No.4 and 5/Delhi Police and the respondent No.6/Lieutenant Governor, GNCTD, to take steps to tempor....

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.... yesterday, it is imperative that the occupancy rate of the Jails in Delhi be brought down at the earliest to prevent the spread of Covid-19 virus in the prisons. Learned counsel submit that as on date, the occupancy rate of the prisoners in Jails in Delhi is 17,000 as against the holding capacity of 10,000 prisoners at one time. It is thus submitted that it is most urgent that the prisoners, who ....

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....heir health and welfare. A perusal of the order dated 16.03.2020, passed in the said petition shows that it is listed before the Supreme Court today itself for further consideration. 4. Since the Supreme Court is already seized of the matter and is examining the issue at a macro level, including the issue raised in the present petition, it may not be appropriate for this Court to entertain this....

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....uch situation or circumstances, which warrants immediate easing of inmate population in the interest of the inmates and the society at large. 6. It is further submitted that a proposal has also been mooted to amend Rule 1202 of the Delhi Prison Rules 2018 to introduce the expression "emergency parole", which shall authorise the government to grant parole for upto 8 weeks in one spell, in additi....