Necessity of Granting Emergency Leave to the Prisoners - R. KARUNANIDHI, Advocate, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court Referring to life in prison, Former Supreme Court Judge V.R.Krishna Iyer in Sunil Batra -Vs- Delhi Administration (AIR 1980 SC 1579) , said “ Prisoners are peculiarly and doubly handicapped. For one thing, most prisoners belong to the weaker segment, in poverty, literacy, social station and the like. Secondly, the prison house is a walled-off world which is incommunicado for the human world, with the result that the bonded inmates are invisible, their voices inaudible, their injustices unheeded. So it is imperative, as implicit provided in Article 21 of the Constitution that life or liberty shall not be kept in suspended animation or congealed into animal existence without the freshing flow of air, procedure”. Further he describes that it is “something m...
