Supreme Court intervention amid COVID-19 has not helped elderly prisoners: Medha Patkar
The Hindu
Activist moves top court, says panels have not got their priorities right
Activist Medha Patkar has approached the Supreme Court, saying its intervention to release prisoners to avoid spread of COVID-19 is hardly helping elderly inmates, especially those aged above 70, who live in anxious isolation behind bars. The Supreme Court had, in suo motu hearings, ordered States to form High Powered Committees (HPCs) to consider and release prisoners on interim bail or parole to de-congest prisons on a war-footing. But Ms. Patkar said the panels, though well-intentioned, did not get their priorities right. Social conditions of the prisoners and administrative convenience seem to take priority over susceptibility to the virus while categorising prisoners for release.
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