Denial Of Voting Rights To Prisoners: Delhi HC Issues Notice In PIL Filed By Law Students [Read Petition]

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8 March 2019 3:47 PM IST

"That any denial of prisoners voting right is inequity and inequality or discrimination invites the wrath of the Constitution. Such a thought is abominable, for it slaughters their core identity of their nationhood", say Petitioners.

The Delhi High Court has issued notice in a Public Interest Litigation filed by three law students challenging the constitutionality of section 62(5) of Representation of People Act, 1951, which deprives prisoners their right to vote. Praveen Kumar Chaudhary, Atul Kumar Dubey and Prerna Singh, Students of B.A LL.B. (H,) 4th Year, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh,...