Delhi High Powered Committee Denies Request To Release Women & Transpersons In Delhi Prisons During The Pandemic [Read Letters]

The Delhi High Powered Committee recently denied the request for reclassification of persons to be released from prisons on interim bail/ parole to include all women, children and transpersons, owing to their social status. The Committee said that it had "absolute discretion" to classify prisoners who may be released from prisons, on account of the pandemic. The said discretion...