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Tihar Jail: PIL before Delhi High Court alleges toilets without doors, lack of clean drinking water

The PIL was filed by the Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee (DHCLSC) after it received a letter from an inmate. The jail premises was then inspected by a panel counsel of the DHCLSC and the report prepared noted that jail was lacking in even basic facilities though it houses some of the most dreaded and well-known accused, undertrials and convicts.

It was submitted stated that the washrooms and their doors are broken which compromises the ability of the inmates to respond to calls of nature and carry out their daily ablutions in a hygienic and private manner.

“Yet further, it was brought out that the living conditions were also poor inter-alia inasmuch as there was also a manhole in the premises which was filled with stagnant water which had begun to spill out of it,” the PIL said.

The Court was further told that the Delhi Prison Rules, 2018 and the Model Prison Manual, 2016 say that the prison inmates should be provided access to clean and adequate drinking water and that hygienic sanitary conditions be maintained in the jail premises.

“Besides, even in international parlance as also foreign jurisdictions, the access to clean drinking water, proper sanitation facilities, and maintaining an overall hygienic environment in prisons has been made mandatory,” it was contended.

Source: Barandbench

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