# Information of Jail visits by District/Sessions Judges and Report regarding Sanitary

- **Citation:** C.L. NO. 67/
- **Court:** Allahabad High Court
- **Decided:** 1996-12-17
- **Case number:** C.L. NO. 67/
- **Source:** https://unisonlegal.in/judgment/allahabad-high-court/information-of-jail-visits-by-district-sessions-judges-and-report-regarding-162659
- **Pages:** 1

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C.L. NO. 67/ DATED 17TH DECEMBER, 1996

Information of Jail visits by District/Sessions Judges and Report regarding Sanitary
Conditions in the Jail.
Hon‟ble Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission has sent a letter to
Hon‟ble the Chief Justice of the High Court, copy of which is being enclosed.
Hon‟ble the Chief Justice has directed that the following information be obtained
from all the District Judges in Uttar Pradesh.
Please provide the following information:
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How many jails exist in your district for the detention of prisoners and
under trials.
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What is the capacity of the jail/Jails in your district?
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How many convicts/under-trials are in detention in the Jails?
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Whether the jail is over-crowded, keeping in view the capacity and the
number of inmates in the jail?
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How are the sanitary conditions of the jail / jails in your district/
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How many times in a month/year you have visited the jail as Sessions
Judge as ex-officio visitor of your jail within your jurisdiction?
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Have you prepared a note on the minimum standard of health, hygiene,
institutional treatment and dispensing. ....
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How many times you alongwith the District Magistrate and the
Superintendent of Police have visited the jail. Submit the statements of
your visits.
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Have you visited the jail/ jails in compliance with the directions of the
Supreme Court? Have you made enquiries into the grievances of the
prisoners? Submit report about the remedy and action suggested by you?
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Whether grievance deposit box has been provided to the prisoners in the
jail/ jails of your district?
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Inform whether any meeting of the District Judge, District Magistrate, and
the Superintendent of Police of the districts has been arranged at regular
intervals to review the conditions of the prisoners? If so, also send the
reports of such meetings.
The aforesaid informations may kindly be sent to the Hon‟ble Court latest by
20.12.1996.
I am, therefore, directed to request you to provide the aforesaid information at an
early date.
C.L. NO. 16 VIIIH-/2006: DATED 4 MAY, 2006

Number of under trial prisoners together with the period of their detention and the
status of their trial.
Recently the Court has noticed a number of instances of under trial prisoners
anguishing in jails for a few decades. Such wretched cases illustrate the inconsiderateness
of the justice delivery system and portray a rather dreary image of its functioning, having
direct crash on human and constitutional rights of the prisoners. The Court is of the