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2021 Supreme(SC) 278

L.NAGESWARA RAO, ANIRUDDHA BOSE
IN RE : CONTAGION OF COVID 19 VIRUS IN PRISONS – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
By Courts Motion, AOR Mr. Dushyant Dave, Sr. Adv. (A.C.) Ms. Srishti Agnihotri, Adv. Mr. Talha Abdul Rahmad, Adv. Mr. Venkat Reddy, Adv. Mr. Prashant Tyagi, Adv Mr. P.Srinivas Reddy, Adv M/S.Venkat Palwai Law Associates, AOR
For the UOI : Mr. K K Venugopal, Ld AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, Ld SG Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Ld ASG. Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR
H.C. of Manipur : Mr. Sharan Thakur, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Thakur, AOR Mr. Siddhartha Thakur, Adv.
State. of Meghalaya : Mr. Amit Kumar,Sr. Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AoR Ms. Rekha Bakshi, Adv. Ms. Shaurya Sahay, Adv. Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajay Verma, Adv. Ms. Ritu Kumar, Adv. Ms. Harini Raghupathy, Adv. Ms. Ankita Wilson, Adv.
State of Tripura/Assam : Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR
State of Odisha : Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR
H.C. of Kerala : Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR Ms. Shruti Jose, Adv
State of U.P. Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Adv/AAG Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain,AOR
State of Mizoram Mr. Siddhesh Kotwal, Adv. Ms. Ana Upadhyay,Adv. Ms. Manya Hasija, Adv. Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR
St. of Chhatisgarh Mr. S. C. Verma, Adv.Genl. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh, Adv Ms. Simran Agarwal, Adv
Sikkim High Court Mr. Avneesh Arputham , AOR Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv for M/s Arputham Aruna and Co.
High Court of J&K Mr. Anupam Raina AOR Mr. Sunando Raha Adv
State of T.N. Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AoR. Mr. D. Kumanan, AoR.
State of Haryana Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Adv.
State of Arunachal Pradesh Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR
State of Jharkhand Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh,AOR Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh,
State of Nagaland Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Adv, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv, Mr. Apratim Animesh Thakur, Adv, Ms. Prachi Hasija, Adv.
H.C.of Chhattisgarh Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Adv Ms. Nidhi Mittal , Adv
State of Kerala Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv. Ms. Priyanka Prakash,Adv. Ms. Beena Prakash, Adv. Mr. G. Prakash, AOR
State of Manipur Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Adv Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv.
State of Goa Mr. Arun R. Pedneker, Adv. Ms. Mukti Chowdhary, AOR
U.T. of A& N Mr. K.V.Jagdishvaran, Adv. Ms. G.Indira,AOR
GNCT of Delhi Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR
State of W.B. Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Adv. Mr. Vishal Prasad, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Parikshith, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Manchanda, Adv. Mr. Sayandeep Pahari, Adv.
Intervenor Mr. Nirmal Kumar Ambastha, AOR Mr. Manu Sharma, Adv. Mr. Niteen Sinha, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Taneja, Adv. Mr. Abhyuday Sharma, Adv. Mr. T.Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv Mr. Amitabh Sinha, Adv Mr. K.V.Girish Chowdary, Adv Mr. Shrey Sharma, Adv.
State of A.P. Mr. Mahfooz A. Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Adv
State of Sikkim Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, Adv. Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv Mr. Narendra Kumar, AOR
State of Punjab Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Manan Bansal, Adv Ms. Shweta Mohta, Adv
State of Karnataka Mr. V.N.Raghupathy, AOR
State of Raj. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR
HC of P&H Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar,Adv.
State of U.P. Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Adv/AAG Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain,AOR
For Impleader Mr. Kanhaiya Singhal, AOR. Ms. Vani Singhal, Adv. Prasanna, Adv. Mr. Chetan Bhardwaj, Adv Ms. Heena Tangri, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Jain, Adv. Mr. Soumya Chakraborty, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Ms. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. R.K. Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv Mr. Santosh Kumar - I, AOR Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR M/S.PLR Chambers And Co., AOR Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, AOR Mr. Harmeet Singh Ruprah, AOR Ms. Binu Tamta, AOR Ms. Supriya Juneja, AOR Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Sibo Sankar Mishra, AOR Mr. Vinod Sharma, AOR Ms. Aruna Mathur, AOR Mr. B. V. Balaram Das, AOR Mr. Vinay Arora, AOR Mr. S. Thananjayan, AOR Mr. G. N. Reddy, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR M/S.Parekh & Co., AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Ms. Sneha Kalita, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Ms. Radhika Gautam, AOR Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Prasanna S., AOR

ORDER

I.A.No. 63598/2021:

Application for intervention is allowed.

I.A.No. 63602 of 2021:

2. This Interlocutory Application is filed for a direction to the High Powered Committee to issue a direction to all the prison authorities and Remission Boards to consider the release of prisoners who are eligible for remission in terms of Sections 432 and 433 A of Cr.P.C.

3. We have heard Mr.Dushyant Dave, learned Amicus Curiae and Mr.Shoeb Alam, learned counsel appearing for the applicant. The learned Amicus Curiae submitted that the State Governments and Union Territories should be directed to file affidavits giving particulars of the prisoners who have been released on parole/interim bail on the basis of the recommendations of the High Powered Committee. The State Governments/Union Territories are directed to file an affidavit within a period of four weeks furnishing information about the number of prisoners released pursuant to the order dated 07.05.2021. The State Governments/Union Territories shall also provide information relating to the number of deaths in prisons due to Covid-19.

4. According to the applicant, pre-mature release of prisoners in exercise of the power conferred under Sectio


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