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1,700 police personnel were deployed across Gujarat to conduct surprise checks in jails. According to Ahmedabad police, in a significant seizure, ganja weighing 100 grams was recovered from the cell of a convicted criminal in Sabarmati Central Jail.
The question of law involved in this case was whether the Covid leave period of a convict’s parole could be considered for calculating the period of his actual sentence.
The petitioner, in his plea, said certain provisions of the Prisons Act provide for punishments like whipping, restriction of food, penal diet is against the Constitution of India
The Punjab Government on Sunday suspended seven jail officials and arrested five of them for negligence on duty over a gang fight in which two gangsters were killed inside Goindwal jail on Feb 26.
‘‘When kids commit crimes for fun, they should be tried as adults”