
HC frames guidelines for compensation to prisoners injured while working
A prisoner cannot be made to suffer due to the inadequacy of policies and a firm attitude by the court was needed to “awaken the relaxed authorities from their slack approach” towards prisoners’ fundamental rights, the Delhi High Court has observed.
The court made the observations while issuing a slew of guidelines for quantifying and assessing the compensation to be paid to a prisoner for injuries sustained while working in jail…
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