The Gujarat Excessive Court docket has ordered the state authorities to pay ₹ 1 lakh to a person who needed to keep again in jail for 3 further years regardless of being granted bail. X
The Gujarat Excessive Court docket has ordered the state authorities to pay an quantity of Rs 1 lakh to a person who needed to spend a further three years in jail regardless of being granted bail, based on a Bar and Bench report.
The jail authorities advised the excessive court docket that they had been unable to open the attachment within the bail order that was emailed to them by the registry in 2020, and therefore, the person couldn’t be launched.
“It is not the case that such email was not received by the jail authorities. It is the case of the jail authorities that necessary action could not be taken in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and though they have received the email, they were unable to open the attachment,” the court docket mentioned.
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The person – now aged 27 – was serving life sentence in a homicide case when the court docket suspended his sentence and granted him bail. Chandanji Takor, nonetheless, regardless of securing bail remained in jail for 3 years as a result of the jail authorities didn’t take the required motion.
“The applicant, though was released and could have enjoyed his freedom, was forced to remain in jail only because no attention was paid by the jail authorities to contact the Registry or Sessions Court with regard to the order passed by this Court,” mentioned the court docket.
“The present case is an eye-opener,” the bench mentioned.
Blaming the jail authorities for the negligence, the excessive court docket ordered the Gujarat authorities to pay him Rs 1 lakh inside 14 days.
“The man is aged about 27 years and he has already undergone, as per the jail remarks, more than 5 years. Hence, in the interest of justice and in order to see that the applicant is appropriately compensated for the negligence of the jail authorities, due to which he was constrained to remain in jail,” the order mentioned.