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Maurya Vijay Chandra

1997

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Dehumanising The Human Rights, Maurya Vijay Chandra Jun 1997

Dehumanising The Human Rights, Maurya Vijay Chandra

Maurya Vijay Chandra

Two submissive souls appearing docile to the core--one 14 year old Manoj with his wrist in one of the hand cuffs while another wrist locked up with that of Jawahir, a 30 year old lean and thin man. These unusual mates stepped down from an Auto with a constable. I say mates because they were sharing the load of the iron chain wrapped around in layers. We could not believe ourselves that all this could happen in the heart of the capital, at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Delhi.


Rationalisation Of Classification Of Prisoners In Tihar Jail, Maurya Vijay Chandra Mar 1997

Rationalisation Of Classification Of Prisoners In Tihar Jail, Maurya Vijay Chandra

Maurya Vijay Chandra

These pourings of the imprisoned poet lay bare the anguish - mental and emotional - that a jail Inmate undergoes. The experience no doubt was of jails of 19th Century, but interestingly the perceptions have not much changed, so much so that we have in the judgement delivered by the Supreme Court on 23-12-1996 (2), on a petition complaining of incarceratory torture and maladministration in jail, observaticns of Justice B.L.Hansaria


Justice And Shrinking Jurisdictions, Maurya Vijay Chandra Feb 1997

Justice And Shrinking Jurisdictions, Maurya Vijay Chandra

Maurya Vijay Chandra

A dip in the holy Ganga during the magh mela at Allahabad was to have earned salvation for Gunna Devi, but instead she is an undertrial in the city's most famous jail Naini. (But for her incarceration she would have preferred Kalpvas on banks of river Ganga, just a stone's throw away from the jail.)