In Re-Inhuman Conditions In 1382 Prisons vs. Director General Of Prisons And Correctional Services

COURT NO.7

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition (Civil) No. 406/2013

RE-INHUMAN CONDITIONS IN 1382 PRISONS VS Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

STATE OF ASSAM & ORS.

Respondent $(s)$

([MR. GAURAV AGRAWAL, ADVOCATE IS AMICUS CURIAE.] [ONLY I.A. NO. 136558/2022 IN WP (C) No.406/2013 IS LISTED.] IA No. 136558/2022 - EXTENSION OF TIME)

Date: 23-09-2022 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.R. SHAH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KRISHNA MURARI

Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Adv (Amicus Curiae)

• For Petitioner(s) By Post
• Mr. K K Venugopal, AG For Respondent(s) Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. R. Balasubramanian, Sr. Adv. Mr. B.K. Satija, Adv Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, Adv. Ms. Binu Tamta, Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Ms. Ameyavikrama Thanvi, Adv. Ms. Shagun Thakur, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Nagar, Adv. Mr. A.K. Sharma, AOR Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, AOR Mr. M Shoeb Alam, AOR Mr. K.M. Nataraj, ASG Ms.Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Nakul Chengappa K.K., Adv. Ms. Ankita Chaudharv Dv. AG $M.P.$ ture Not Verified Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AoR $\mathbf{M} \mathbf{S} \mathbf{g} \mathbf{h} \mathbf{a} \mathbf{I} \mathbf{a} \mathbf{y} \mathbf{a}$ Mr. T.K. Navak, Adv. Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv

contd..

Karnataka	Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR<br>Mr Md. Apzal Ansari, Adv
Manipur	Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR<br>Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv.<br>Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr.<br>Wahengbam Immanuel Meitei, Adv.
Jharkhand	Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AAG /AoR<br>Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv<br>Mr. Sukant Vikram, Adv
Nagaland	Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv<br>Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv<br>Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv.<br>Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.
Tripura	Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR<br>Mr. Arnav Singh Deo, Adv.
Odisha	Dr. Anindita Pujari, AOR<br>Mr. Azad Bansala, Adv<br>Ms. Prakriti Rastogi, Adv
Assam	Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR<br>Mr. Ishaan Borthakur, Adv.
Sikkim	Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv.<br>Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv.<br>Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR
West Bengal	Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR.<br>Ms. Raveesha Gupta, Adv.<br>Ms. Mantika Haryani, Adv.<br>Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv.<br>Ms. Deeksha Agrawal, Adv.
State of U.P.	Ms. Garima Prasad, Sr. Advocate, AAG<br>Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, AOR<br>Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv<br>Mr. Ashish Ranjan, Adv
Bihar	Mr. Devashish Bharuka, AOR<br>Ms. Sarvshree, Adv<br>Mr. Justine George Adv.<br>Mr. Abhijeet Singh, Adv.
H.P.	Mr. Himanshu Tyagi, AOR

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Haryana	Mr. B.K Satija. AAG
	Mr. Himanshu Satija, Adv.
	Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR
Uttarakhand	Mr. Siddharth Sangal AOR
	Ms. Nilanjani Tandon, Adv.
	Ms. Vaidehi Kothari, Adv.
Punjab
	Mr. Vinod Ghai, Sr. Adv. General<br>Mr. Ajay Pal, AOR
	Ms. Kanika Ahuja, Adv.
	Mr. Mayank Dahiya, Adv.
	Ms. Priyank C., Adv.
	Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR
	Ms. Jaspreet Gogia, AOR
Rajasthan	Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Arpit Parkash, Adv.
	Mr. Vikalp Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR
Andhra Pradesh	Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR
	Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv
	Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv
	Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv
	Ms. Rajeswari Mukerjee, Adv
	Mr. K.V.Girish Chowdary, Adv
Maharashtra	Mr.<br>Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
	Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, AOR.
	Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv.
Tamil Nadu	Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AoR.
	Ms. Nupur Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. Shobhit Dwivedi, Adv.
	Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Mahara, Adv.
UT of Dadra Nagar Harish Pandey, Adv<br>& Haveli	Ms Sanskriti Pathak Adv
	Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR
	Mr. Salvador Santosh Rebello, AOR
	Mr. Raghav Sharma Adv.
	Ms. Nidhi Vardan Adv.
	Mr. Kanishk Arora Adv.<br>Mr. Rahul Kapoor Adv.
	Ms. Sandhya T. Reddy, Adv.
	Mr. Hitesh Kr. Sharma,Adv.
	Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, adv.
	Ms. Niharika Dewivedi, Adv.
	Mr. S. Ashok Reddy, Adv.

contd..

- 4 - Mr. T.V. Reddy, Adv. Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, AOR Ms. Shreya Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Ashish Madaan, Adv. Mr. Aman Singh Bhadoria, Adv. Ms. Ananya Saho, Adv. Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Ajay Verma, Adv. Ms. Mugdha, Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR Ms. Pragya Singh, Adv Ms. Akshay Singh, Adv. Mr. Shantwanu Singh, Adv Ms. G. Indira, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Mr. D. Mahesh Babu, AOR Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR M/S. Corporate Law Group, AOR Mr. Apoorva Bhumesh, AOR Mr. Sudarshan Singh Rawat, AOR Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Kuldip Singh, AOR Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, AOR Mr. B. V. Balaram Das, AOR M/S. Plr Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Salvador Santosh Rebello, AOR Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mitali Gupta, Adv. Mr. Niraj Dubey Adv. UT of A&N Islands Mr. Ankur S. Kulkarni, AOR Mr. Susheel Joseph Cyriac, Adv Ms. Uditha Chakravarthy, Adv Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR

contd.

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Mr. Devashish Bharuka, AOR

Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R IA No. 136558/2022

The present application has been preferred for extension of time on behalf of the Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms for Submission of Final Report.

It is stated in the application that earlier due to COVID-19 for two years and thereafter as some of the States and Union Territories did not submit the required information on the questionnaires on Juveniles in Correctional Homes and that the Presiding Judge of the Committee was not well for a month, the Committee has not been able to complete the inquiry and submit the Report. It is requested to extend the time by submitting that on Juveniles Correctional Homes, tentative time required for completion of inquiry is two months and for prison staff (training and recruitment) and prevention of unnatural deaths in prisons, it will take one month.

In that view of the matter, we extend the time upto 31.12.2022 to submit the Report. We direct the concerned States/Union Territories to give fullest cooperation and respond to whatever the questionnaires are made/sent on the aforesaid subjects.

With this, the present Application stands disposed of.

(NEETU SACHDEVA) (NISHA TRIPATHI)