HC asks for procedure to place prisoner in solitary confinement
The Hindu
Judges direct CJM to visit jail, get photos of ‘anda cell’
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court on Monday directed prison authorities to place on record the prescribed procedure for placing a prisoner in solitary confinement.
A Division Bench of Justices V.K. Jadhav and Sandip Kumar More was hearing a criminal petition filed by Ruheena Shaikh wife of Imran,who was sent to anda cell (solitary confinement) at a Central prison in Aurangabad two years back. She sought a direction from the court to immediately shift her husband on the basis of his deteriorating mental health.
The Bench said, “If certain procedure is prescribed, then we would like to know what the procedure is. This cannot be done arbitrarily. He may be a hardened criminal, a terror to the society, but what is expected is human treatment and not in-human treatment.”
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