HC pulls up govt over poor medical facilities for prisoners
28 Nov 2014 5:29 AM IST
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Delhi government for not filing a proper affidavit with respect to medical facilities available to prisoners in Tihar Jail here. ‘What is this. Why have you not filed a proper affidavit.
‘You have only mentioned legal provisions in the affidavit.
‘What are you doing with respect to dead bodies in hospitals?’ a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul asked. The court directed Delhi prisons to file an affidavit indicating whether proper medical facilities were provided to prisoners and whether there were any norms for it.
It further directed that the affidavit shall clearly state whether any system was in place to address the letters received from representatives or family members of the prisoners. “We direct the three municipal corporations, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi government to prepare standards in the form of checklist with timeline and specific procedure to be followed. The state government shall take a lead and prepare a checklist and place before the court,” the bench said.
The bench was perusing an affidavit, filed by the Delhi government, with respect to the aspect of medical facilities available to prisoners — undertrials and convicts. The court was hearing a PIL initiated by it after a murder accused died, allegedly due to tuberculosis (TB), while in judicial custody and then one eye of the deceased went missing while the body was kept in the mortuary of a government hospital where he was admitted for treatment.
‘You have only mentioned legal provisions in the affidavit.
‘What are you doing with respect to dead bodies in hospitals?’ a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul asked. The court directed Delhi prisons to file an affidavit indicating whether proper medical facilities were provided to prisoners and whether there were any norms for it.
It further directed that the affidavit shall clearly state whether any system was in place to address the letters received from representatives or family members of the prisoners. “We direct the three municipal corporations, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi government to prepare standards in the form of checklist with timeline and specific procedure to be followed. The state government shall take a lead and prepare a checklist and place before the court,” the bench said.
The bench was perusing an affidavit, filed by the Delhi government, with respect to the aspect of medical facilities available to prisoners — undertrials and convicts. The court was hearing a PIL initiated by it after a murder accused died, allegedly due to tuberculosis (TB), while in judicial custody and then one eye of the deceased went missing while the body was kept in the mortuary of a government hospital where he was admitted for treatment.
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