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2024 Supreme(SC) 709

HIMA KOHLI, SANDEEP MEHTA
IN RE-INHUMAN CONDITIONS IN 1382 PRISONS – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, Sr. Adv. (Amicus Curiae)
For the Respondent(s): Mrs. Aishwariya Bahti, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Shagun Thakur, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Adv. Mrs. Neelakshi Bhadouria, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Suhashini Sen, Adv. Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, Adv. Mr. B K Satija, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kartikay Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Adv. Mrs. Ameya Vikrama Thanvi, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv.
For the Arunachal Pradesh : Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv.
R-5 : Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR
Gujarat : Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Ms. Neha Singh, Adv.
Goa : Mr. Surjendu Sankar Das, AOR Mr. Anand Murthi Rao, Adv.
Haryana : Mr. B.K. Satija, A.A.G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AOR Mr. Keshav Mittal, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Fateh Singh, Adv. Mr. T. N. Surendranath, Adv. Mr. Atul Arvind, Adv. Mr. Ritesh Kumar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Prakhar Garg, Adv.
R-9 : Mr. Parth Awasthi, Adv. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Ms. Maitreyee Jagat Joshi, Adv. Mr. Astik Gupta, Adv.
Himachal Pradesh : Ms. Inderdeep Kaur Raina, Adv. Mr. Kartikeya Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Rishi Malhotra, AOR
Karnataka : Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR
Kerala : Mr. C. K. Sasi, AOR Ms. Meena K Poulose, Adv. Ms. Anupriya, Adv.
R-14 : Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, AOR Mr. Bittu Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chhavi Verma, Adv.
Maharashtra : Mr. Bharat Bagla, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Mr. Aditya Krishna, Adv. Ms. Preet S. Phanse, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Dubey, Adv.
Manipur : Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Karun Sharma, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. R. Rajaselvan, Adv.
Meghalaya : Mr. Amit Kumar, Adv. General, Sr. Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv. Ms. Rekha Bakshi, Adv. Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv. Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv.* Mr. P.S. Negi, Adv.*
R-18 : Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AOR
Nagaland : Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.
Odisha : Ms. Anindita Pujari, AOR
Punjab : Mr. Mohd Irshad, A.A.G. Mr. Karan Sharma, AOR
Rajasthan : Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR
Sikkim : Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Anand Kumar Dubey, Adv. Mr. Simanta Kumar, Adv. Mr. Devvrat Singh, Adv. Mr. Maneesh Pathak, Adv. Mr. Jainendra Kumar, Adv.
Tamil Nadu : Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Sabarish Subramanian, AOR Ms. Devyani Gupta, Adv. Mr. Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Naman Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. C Kranthi Kumar, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Anand, Adv. Ms. Saushria Havelia, Adv. Mr. Danish Saifi, Adv.
R-26 : Mr. Siddharth Sangal, AOR
U.P. : Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. A.A.G. Mr. Pradeep Misra, AOR Mr. Daleep Dhyani, Adv. Mr. Suraj Singh, Adv. Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma, Adv.
West Bengal : Mr. Srisatya Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Shreyas Awasthi, Adv. Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv.
INT : Ms. Pallavi Langar, AOR Ms. Namita Choudhary, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv.
Bihar : Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR Mr. Pranjal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kashif Irshad Khan, Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Jhamba, Adv.
IMPL : Ms. Rashmi Nandakumar, AOR Ms. Yashmita Pandey, Adv. Mr. Rajendra Sahu, AOR Ms. Hema Sahu, Adv. Mr. Rishabh Sahu, Adv. Mr. C L Sahu, Adv. Dr. Vikas Pahal, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR
Mizoram : Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Ms. Akshata Chhabra, Adv.
INT : Mr. Chandra Prakash, AOR
Jharkhand : Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, Sr.Adv, A.A.G. Mr. Shantanu Sagar, AOR Mr. Prabhat Ranjan Raj, Adv. Mr. Anil Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gunjesh Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Manoneet Dwivedi, Adv.
IMPL : Mr. Salvador Santosh Rebello, AOR Mr. Raghav Sharma, Adv. Ms. Kritika, Adv. Mr. Prateek Tanmay, Adv. Ms. Pooja Gill, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv. Mr. Rahul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Kushagra Aman, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Bansal, Adv. Mrs. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Karol, Adv. Mr. Ameyvikrama Thanvi, Adv. Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Yadav, Adv. Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv.
Chhattisgarh : Mr. Abhishek Pandey, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar Umrao, AOR Mrs. Aishwariya Bahti, A.S.G. Mr. R Bala, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mukesh Kumar Maroria, AOR Mrs. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Sharma, Adv. Mrs. Shagun Thakur, Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Adv. Mrs. Neelakshi Bhadouria, Adv.
UT OF A&N : Mr. K. M. Nataraj, A.S.G.(NP) Mrs. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mrs. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Mr. Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Parihar, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Vineet Singh, Adv.*
INT : Mr. Ajay Verma, Adv. Mr. Vaishnav Kirti Singh, Adv. Mr. Krishna Sharma, Adv. Mr. Durgesh Ramchandra Gupta, AOR Mr. Prashant Singh, AOR Ms. Devina Sehgal, AOR Mr. Dhananjay Yadav, Adv.

ORDER

1. This order is in continuation of the order passed on 13th August, 2024. On the last date of hearing, Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, learned Amicus Curiae had submitted that the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 20231 [For short ‘the BNSS’] , which has replaced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 w.e.f. 01st July, 2024, contains a provision under Section 479 relating to the ‘Maximum period for which an undertrial prisoner can be detained’. The attention of this Court was drawn to the first proviso to Section 479 to urge that a first-time offender (who has never been convicted for any offence in the past) is required to be released on bond by the Court, if he has undergone detention for the period extending up to one-third of the maximum period of imprisonment specified for such an offence under a particular law.

2. Having regard to the fact that the substituted provision under the BNSS is more beneficial vis-a-vis Section 436A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, wherein the period undergone by the first time offender was prescribed as up to half of the maximum period of imprisonment specified for such an offence, this Court had called upon the learned Additional Solicitor Genera

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