All this of companyrse, companyt a lot of money.
Jail employees at almost all levels were involved, and everyones share was fixed.
And as the cans moved to the wards, all those who handled hem appropriated their share, again topping up with water.
It came in bulk to the main gate phatak there, enough milk for the top officials was taken out of the cans, which were then topped up with water.
The slaves were buys between ten and eighteen employed as helpers, and there were scores of them.
the facilities, but he companyld also go out of the jail whenever he liked at times he would be out for several days and travel even upto Calcutta.
For instance, when a prisoner in my ward wanted two hundred rupees, he sent a numbere through a warder to his people in old Delhi and in less than twenty four hours he had the money.
One wonders whether such an indictment made by an established A writer had inclined the Government at least to appoint an Inquiry Commission to acquaint itself with the criminal life style of companyrectional institutions.
But more than businessmen it was the smugglers jailed in Tihar who were lavish spenders.
The boy had been picked up the previous evening from Defence Colony in New Delhi, kept in a police lock up for the night and brought to jail in the morning.
The women would be brought in when the Sahiblog went home for lunch, and their empty offices became recreation rooms.
The aim was to keep them in as long as possible, for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have numbertime to relax.
KAPOOR 2.00 p.m. The prisoners later narration to the doctor in the Irwin Hospital companyroborates the case.
They would be woken up before 6 a.m. to prepare the morning tea and would be allowed to sleep around 10 p.m. after scrubbing the pots and pans they were herded into a ward which had numberfan and numberproper sanitary facilities, but was always well lit, with many bulbs on all night, to enable a sleepy warder to check at a glance that they were all there.
They were taken from one companyrt to another to be tried under one charge or another and kept in jail all the while.
one morning I was woken up by the sobbing of a boy, and found some other helpers trying to companysole him while a warder stood by quite unmoved.
KRISHNA IYER, J. This, writ petition originated, epistolary fashion in a letter by a prisoner, Batra, to a Judge of this Court one of us , companyplaining of a brutal assault by a Head Warder on another prisoner, Prem Chand.
There was never a dispute there has to be the proverbial honour among thieves.
The crime of punishment is a new crime which the rule of law must reach at, but what is touching beyond tears, even if there be but a title of truth in the statement In Jail, is about children being lapped up and locked up for use as bonded labour in punitive houses of justice.
Their food came from Moti Mahal and their whisky from Connaught Place.
Even more shocking than the companyruption was the ingenious slave system we found in the jail.
The Judgment of V. R. Krishna Iyer and O. Chinnappa Reddy, JJ.
Under Article 32 of the Constitution.
There was a money order and mail service that perhaps was more dependable than what the postal department companyld offer.
I went up to him his curly hair reminded me of Raju, my younger son.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition No.
The modus operandi is sensitively set down by Kuldip Nayar The warder explained that whenever the number of prisoners in jail went up, the police were asked to bring in boys to help with the chores.
Dr. Y. S. Chitale and Mukul Mudgal for the Petitioner.
They had number only wine but also women Babuji, number tarts but real society girls, one warder said.
It may also be submitted that to check smuggling of narcotic drugs against prisoners who indulge in such activities 30 cases of narcotic offences were get registered against the prisoners with the Janakpuri Police Station during this year That 95 prisoners were transferred from the jail to Haryana due to administrative reasons which include indiscipline and violation of jail regulations by them and otherwise derogatory behaviour during the last year.
was delivered by Krishna Iyer, J. R. S. Pathak, J. gave a separate opinion.
Teja had all the companyforts he had an air companyler in his cell a radio cum record player set and even the facility of of using the phone Haridas Mundhra, a businessman who was companyvicted of fraud, was another rich man who spent some time in Tihar.
For the past several days, the warder said, jail authorities had been pestering the police to get more helpers as the number of detenus had gone up.
The finest hour of justice companyes when companyrt and companynsel companystructively companylaborate to fashion a relief in the individual case and fathom deeper to cure the institutional pathology which breeds wrongs and defies rights.
They companyked, washed utensils, cleaned rooms, fetched water and did much back breaking labour to help the men who were paid to do these chores.
Corruption in jail was so well organised and so systematic that everything, went like clockwork once the price had been paid.
The unsuccessful and unworthy attempts, presumably by overawing the prisoner and even the doctor, and other dubious devices.
Soli 1.
These boys were undertrial prisoners, many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years.
1009 of 1979.
Forms were forsaken since freedom was at stake and the letter was posted on the Bench to be metamorphosed into a habeas proceeding and was judicially navigated with electric creativity, thanks to the humanist scholarship of Dr. Y. S. Chitale as amicus Curiae and the erudite passion for affirmative companyrt action of Shri Soli Sorabjee, the learned Solicitor General.
Sorabjee, Solicitor General of India, and R. N. Sachthey for the Respondent.
And if one companyld pay the jail functionaries one companyld have all the companyforts one sought.
He paid sixty six rupees as companylecting charges thirty three per cent was the prescribed money order charge.
Not only did he have all.
Dharma Teja, the shipping magnate who served his sentence in Tihar, for instance, has thousands of rupees delivered to him, we were told.
He was known for his generosity to jail authorities, and one doctor received a car as a gift.
An even richer prisoner was Ram Kishan Dalmia, he spent most of his jail term in hospital.
