A Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala Subramonian Poti CJ and Chandrasekhara Menon, J in the decision entitled as in the matter of prison reform enchancement of wages of prisoners 1983 KLT 512 , seems to have taken the land in this area and suggested that the wages ggiven to prisoners must be as per with the wages fixed under the Minimum Wages Act for short MW Act and the request to deduct the companyt for providing food and clothes to the prisoner from such wages was spurned down.
The judgment was rendered by a Division Bench headed by P Subramaniam Poti, CJ and the reasons adverted in the decision of the kerala High Court were reiterated.
The State Governments which preferred the appeals are generally in agreement with the view that prisoners should be paid wages and that the present rates of wages paid to them are too meargre and hence they must be onhanced.
In Madhya Pradesh the figure is 27,300 as against a prison capacity of 17,720.
To what extent is the plank on which the State Government companytested these causes by challenging the judgements under appeals.
