Supreme Court seeks Centres response on plea to fix prisoners wages The petitioner organization is a network of individuals and social work groups working in the state of Bihar and focusing on the plight of prisoners in the jails in Bihar. Some of the lawyers who are part of this group provide legal aid to poor prisoners free of cost in the prisons. While studying the issue of minimum wages paid to the convict prisoners and under trials, the petitioner organization decided to do a study of the wages paid to prisoners throughout the country. The picture that emerged was one of injustice being done to the prison population almost in every state and union territory. The Supreme Court on 17 Jan 2015 issued notice to Centre and state governments on a PIL seeking its direction to fix wage for prison workers on par with minimum wages and to provide eight hours work to all prisoners and under-trials who volunteer for such work. Agreeing to hear the PIL filed by a Bihar-based NGO Bandi Adhikar Andolan, a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu sought response from the governments. The petitioner alleged that denying reasonable wages to a prisoner for his work amounts to violation of their rights. Read more: hrln.org/hrln/prisoners-rights/pils-a-cases/1671-supreme-court-seeks-centres-response-on-plea-to-fix-prisoners-wages.html#ixzz3PS2Rus00
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:48:21 +0000
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