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The inspector general of prisons today submitted a report to the High Court, saying that the death row convicts are lawfully kept in the condemn cells before the cases against them are finally settled because of the security reasons
The submission was made during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by advocate Amit Sahni in 2019 for declaration of conjugal visits in prison as a fundamental right of the prisoner and their spouse.
As of November 2022, the Yerawada jail had 6,854 inmates against its capacity of 2,449, according to the prisons department data.
The Court sought the affidavit on compliance with its September 2022 judgment, which urged the State to consider all cases of convicts undergoing life sentence who were eligible for premature release.
Sandeep Goyal was accused of providing facilities to conmen Sukesh Chandrashekhar in jail