# 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-162660 - **Pages:** 3 ## Text 331 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: - How many jails exist in your district for the detention of prisoners and under trials. - What is the capacity of the jail/Jails in your district? - How many convicts/under-trials are in detention in the Jails? - Whether the jail is over-crowded, keeping in view the capacity and the number of inmates in the jail? - How are the sanitary conditions of the jail / jails in your district/ - 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? - Have you prepared a note on the minimum standard of health, hygiene, institutional treatment and dispensing. .... - How many times you alongwith the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police have visited the jail. Submit the statements of your visits. - 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? - Whether grievance deposit box has been provided to the prisoners in the jail/ jails of your district? - 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 332 considered view that regular monitoring of the progress of the under trial prisoners by the Court itself and efficient inspection actually and meticulously investigating the number of under trial prisoners together with the period of their detention and the status of trial might help in avoiding the stoppable likelihood of having such inopportune and forgotten under trial prisoners as well expecting the trial of such prisoners. Therefore, I am directed to request you to kindly ensure regular and valuable scrutiny of the progress of the trial of under trial prisoners by the Courts under our administrative control. I am further directed to demand that while making joint inspection of the District Jail under Court‟s Circular Letter No. 82/VIIIf-9/inspection Section dated 12.9.1994 make concrete and pains taking analysis of the number of under trial prisoners. Further also, the Chief Judicial Magistrate/Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate authorized to ascertain the position of the under trials under Court‟s G.L. No. 38/Admn. (B) dated 9th December 1968 read with Court‟s Circular Letter No. 198/Admn. Dated 10.12.1976 be directed to craft substantial and conscientious analysis of the number of under trial prisoners together with the period of their detention and the status of their trial. Still further, neatly typed quarterly report in regard to the number of under trial prisoners together with the period of their detention and the status of their trial as well minutiae of steps taken to accelerate the trial of such prisoners be recurrently sent so as to reach the Deputy Registrar (Administration) by the 10th day of the opening month of each next following quarter. ========= 333 ADDENDA C.L. NO. 34/DR (S)/2005, DATED 19TH NOVEMBER, 2005 I am Directed to say that in the matter of transfer and posting of the judicial officers, the court has decided that on completion of normal tenure of posting i.e. (i) three years stay in the district including Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (Railways) (ii) two years stay in an outlying court or at Sonbhadra upto July 31st 2006, the Judicial Officers shall be transferred subject to the following norms: (I) The officer will not be poster in his home town. (II) He will not be posted to a district where he was earlier posted within 6 years. (III) He will not be posted to any district falling in the zone in which he was earlier posted within 3 years. (IV) He will not be posted to any adjoining district of the other zone. (V) The bar on re-posting of an officer in the zone will not apply in cases in which the officers had been posted for a short period of less than 6 months. I am to add that no. T.A. will be admissible to those officers whose request for premature transfer within two years of his posting to a particular station and one year in outlying courts or at Sonbhadra is accepted by the Court. Officer posted in your Sessions Division may kindly be advised accordingly these norms shall not, however, be applicable to the District Judge, except no (I). In this connection it is also pointed out that the Court has divided the State of U.P. into 7 zones and also formulated guide-lines in the matter of transfer and posting which are enumerated in Appendix "A" annexed herewith along with proforma of application. This proforma regarding transfer duly filled-in, be forwarded to the Deputy Registrar (Services) on or before 31st day of January 2006. (APPENDIX "A") DIVISION OF U.P. IN ZONES COMPRISING DISTRICTS ASFORMULATED BY ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEEE (i) KANPUR ZONE Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur, Jalaun at Orai, Banda, Fatehpur, Mahoba, Unnao and Chitrakoot. (ii) GORAKHPUR ZONE Gorakhpur, Deoria, Basti, Maharajganj, Sidharthnagar, Faizabad, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kushi Nagar at Padrauna, Ambedkarnagar at Akbarpur and Sant Kabuir Nagar. (iii) BARELLY ZONE Bareilly, Pilibhit, Rampur, Budaun, Bijnor, Shahjahanpur, Moradabad and Jyotiba Phole Nagar. (iv) AGRA ZONE Agra, Aligarh, Mathura, Farrukhabad, Etah, Etawah, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Hathras, Kannauj and Auraiya. (v) LUCKNOW ZONE Lucknow, Hardoi, Raebareli, Gonda, Sitapur, Bahraich, Barabanki, Lakhimpur Kheri, Shrawasti at Bhinga and Balrampur. (vi) ALLAHABAD ZONE Allahabad, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, Ghazipur, Ballia, Mau, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Bhadohi at Gyanpur, Chandauli and Kaushambi. (vii) MEERUT ZONE Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Baghpat and Gautam Budh Nagar