{"id":6205,"date":"2019-08-31T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T07:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=6205"},"modified":"2019-08-31T07:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T07:08:50","slug":"delhi-high-court-proposes-law-officer-for-16-city-correctionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/delhi-high-court-proposes-law-officer-for-16-city-correctionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court proposes law officer for 16 city correctionals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: newindianexpress.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Appearing for the Delhi government, Standing Counsel (criminal) Rahul  Mehra said the Director-General of Prisons has been consulted and the  process of appointment of law officers will be set in motion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:&nbsp;The Delhi High Court \nsuggested on Thursday the appointment of law officers on contractual \nbasis in the 16 jails of the national capital for their better \nadministration and smooth functioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and \nJustice C Hari Shankar said a public interest litigation (PIL), seeking \nappointment of one law officer in each of the 16 jails of the national \ncapital in a time-bound manner, was a \u201cgood\u201d issue and asked the Aam \nAadmi Party (AAP) government to look into the matter.<br>\n<br>\nAppearing for the Delhi government, Standing Counsel (criminal) Rahul \nMehra said the Director-General of Prisons has been consulted and the \nprocess of appointment of law officers will be set in motion soon.<br>\n<br>\nHe told the high court that there are 16 jails in the state \u2014 nine at \nthe Tihar prison complex, one at the Rohini prison complex and six at \nthe Mandoli prison complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer said that selection of law \nofficers through Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board may take \ntime. The AAP government sought time to file response to the PIL and the\n court posted the matter for hearing on September 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition, filed by advocate Amit \nSahni, had alleged that despite the Delhi Prisons Act, 2000, mandating \nthat there shall be a law officer in every prison, there is only one law\n officer for the 16 jails in the national capital. The lone officer is \nstationed at the prison headquarters at Tihar.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had also claimed that from August 2016 to February 2019, no law officer was appointed at the prison headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Section 6 of the Delhi Prisons Act, \n2000, provides that every prison shall have a superintendent, a deputy \nsuperintendent, a medical officer, a law officer, a welfare officer and \nother officers as the government may deem fit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/delhi-high-court-proposes-law-officer-for-16-city-correctionals\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: newindianexpress.com Appearing for the Delhi government, Standing Counsel (criminal) Rahul Mehra said the Director-General of Prisons has been consulted and the process of appointment of law officers will be set in motion NEW DELHI:&nbsp;The Delhi High Court suggested on Thursday the appointment of law officers on contractual basis in the 16 jails of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2952],"tags":[4830,4828,1263,4829],"class_list":["post-6205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-delhi-high-court","tag-correctionals","tag-court-proposes","tag-law","tag-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6207,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions\/6207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}