Ensure Prisoners Can Access Kiosks In Their Own Language: Madras High Court To State
The Madras High Court has recently directed the State to set up Kiosks inside prisons which will enable the prisoners to know the status of their cases. The court noted that even though as per an earlier direction of the court, such Kiosk was installed in Central Prison Puzhal, only Hindi and English language were available which the prisoners had difficulty in understanding.Justice Sunder...
The Madras High Court has recently directed the State to set up Kiosks inside prisons which will enable the prisoners to know the status of their cases. The court noted that even though as per an earlier direction of the court, such Kiosk was installed in Central Prison Puzhal, only Hindi and English language were available which the prisoners had difficulty in understanding.
Since the earlier direction of this Court to complete the exercise within four months have not been complied with, this Court deems it necessary to issue directions to the respondents to file a status report, within a period of two (2) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, as to the steps taken for installing KIOSK machines in all the prisons and the steps taken to include Tamil language for the purpose of enabling the prisoners to access the same.
Case No: WP (MD).No.10524 of 2020