[Marxistindia] On Supreme Court Judgment

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Fri Oct 4 13:57:40 IST 2024


October 4, 2024

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

On SC Judgment

 

CPI(M) welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court which directs the Central
and state governments to take steps to end the practices of caste
discrimination in prisons/jails. The judgment delivered by the three Judge
Bench headed by CJI is an important intervention by the judiciary in the
much-needed battle against the obnoxious caste system.

 

The Court declared 'the right to live with dignity extends to even the
incarcerated' and the provisions which allowed caste bias and segregation in
various prison manuals and laws as unconstitutional.

 

Pointing out the presence of provisions which subject the prisoners to work
assignments, housing arrangements and food preparations based on caste bias
and notions of untouchability, it directed the Central and state governments
to remove all of them from the prison manuals.

 

The CPI(M) demands that all the governments initiate the measures suggested
by the Court within the stipulated time of three months to eliminate
caste-based discrimination in prison life.

 

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee Office 

 

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