Calcutta High Court Registers Suo Moto Case To Monitor Mentally Ill Prisoners In Terms Of Sheela Barse Case
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The Calcutta High Court has registered a
suo moto case to monitor the mental health and other allied matters of various convicts and undertrial prisoners lodged in various correctional homes in West Bengal and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The case has been registered on the basis of administrative directions issued by
Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan, in terms of the Supreme Court s directions in
Sheela Barse v. Union of India & Ors., (1995) 5 SCC 654.
In this case, the Supreme Court was dealing with a letter petition highlighting the deplorable manner in which mentally ill women and children were kept in Presidency Jail at Calcutta.
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