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Corruption Free India Urges Supreme Court to Protect Prisoners From COVID-19 by Releasing Them Out
NGO CFI writes to CJI seeking intervention for releasing undertrials and those who are convicted for petty crimes
New Delhi, India–(Newsfile Corp. – April 6, 2020) – New Delhi based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Corruption Free India (CFI) has urged the Supreme Court to direct States’ Prisons’ Head or Director General of Prisons to strictly implement the apex court’s order to bail out undertrials and those convicted prisoners except the Once’s Convicted for Death in Prison and Death Sentences. The Supreme Court would be taking up a suo-motu writ petition – CONTAGION OF COVID 19 VIRUS IN PRISONS – on April 17. The Organisation has urged the Supreme Court to consider certain true facts while hearing the writ petition.
