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Convicts, undertrials to be released temporarily for 90 days

Report on considering release of new categories to be tabled before panel within 7 days

LCT Desk by LCT Desk
May 18, 2021
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Faizan Wani

Srinagar, May 18: A high-powered committee has decided that all the convicts/undertrial prisoners who were released on parole/interim bail on its directions last year shall be immediately released temporarily for a period of 90 days.
Sources said that the panel headed by Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey decided that the special parole/ interim bail would be applicable to all those categories of convicts/undertrials who were already covered under it.
its meeting last year, the committee decided that parole should be granted to all those who have been convicted in one case only and have spent more than ten years (eight years in case of women) in jail, except those involved in militancy-related cases, convicted for intermediate or large quantity recovery under NDPS Act or convicted under POCSO Act or convicted for offence for an offence against woman, or convicted for offence of acid attack or foreign nationals.
The panel had also directed the authorities to consider the release of all those who have been sentenced to imprisonment for three years with or without fine and their conviction has been upheld by the Appellate Court but revision against the judgment by Appellate Court is pending before the High Court.
It had also directed the authorities to grant parole to those who have completed their sentence but are still in prison due to non-payment of fine.
The panel also directed the government to examine cases of prisoners with advance age and those sufferings from any illness on a case to case basis for grant of parole.
Similarly, the committee proposed that all under-trial prisoners with only one case pending against them, in which maximum prescribed sentence is seven years or less with or without fine, shall be considered for 60 days interim bail.
In the HPC meeting held on Monday, Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey also directed the member secretary, J&K Legal Services Authority to coordinate with the other two members of the committee to find out the category of convicts/UTPs who can also be released pursuant to the directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
“Such an exercise shall be completed within a week and the report be placed before the Committee,” an official handout reads.
The panel headed by Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey, executive chairman, J&K Legal Services Authority comprises Shaleen Kabra, Principal Secretary, Home Department and B.Srinivas, DGP (Prisons).
The committee was constituted last year after the Supreme Court directed the States/UTs to decongest prisons in the wake of outbreak of COVID-19.

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