A Saket court has directed the Tihar Jail Superintendent to take immediate steps for Aaftab Poonawala’s Safety and to file an action taken report, after the undertrial in the Shraddha Walkar murder case said fellow inmates had threatened to kill him for ten days; the court permitted his shifting to a separate ward if needed. […]
After a Delhi High Court order to release an undertrial on parole went unimplemented, and a later order imposing conditions was defied on the ground that it had not come ‘directly from the court’, the High Court drew contempt proceedings against the Tihar Jail Superintendent. It held that keeping a man behind bars despite a constitutional court’s release order, on a condition the court never imposed, violated his rights under Articles 14 and 21.
