10 May 2023
Supreme Court condones denying 4,00,000 citizens, the right to vote
[This post is based on a paper titled Undertrials, Voting and the Constitution, authored by Meghna Jandu and myself, which was published in the 10th edition of Indian Constitution Law Review] 76% of prisoners in India are undertrials. They have not been convicted of any offence are in prison, and are in prison only because they have not yet been...