Jail Staff Shares 'Vicarious Inculpability' With Prisoners In Unauthorised Possession Of Mobile Phones: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab & Haryana High Court said that jail staff share "vicarious inculpability" with prisoners found in unauthorised possession of mobile phones in prison.A five-judge bench of Justice Sureshwar Thakur, Justice Deepak Sibal, Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal, Justice Meenakshi I. Mehta and Justice Rajesh Bhardwaj said, "...only with the active complicity of the jail staff, the...