HUMAN RIGHTS
The Common Man’s Personal Liberty Prabhakar Sinha Even 62 years after independence the common man’s personal liberty has not received the attention the citizens of a republic deserves. The jails in the country are overflowing with under trial prisoners detained for allegations of minor criminal offences. In fact, a very large number of them continue to languish in jails because they are too poor to move for a bail; many of them continue to be in the prison because the trial takes too long. In fact, if their cases had been tried in time and they had been convicted, they would have been free, as they have already spent more time in jail than their offence warranted. Since the independence, millions of the common citizens have suffered undeserved loss of their personal liberty and been forced to live in jail in inhuman conditions without anybody seriously taking up the cudgels on their behalf. The cause...
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