P. A. CHOUDHARY, J.

( 1 ) ORDER :- This is a writ petition of the genre of public interest litigation. While studying Criminology as part of his third year B. L. degree Course, the petitioner one day on 16th February, 1985 visited the Central Jail at Visakhapatnam. There he noticed the conditions of prisoners in the matter of their working for the prison authorities without getting almost any payment in return. He found the prison authorities extracting work from the prisoners undergoing rigorous imprisonment without paying wages at all or paying nominal wages. He concluded that the prisoners convicted of rigorous imprisonment are thus being exploited and are being subjected to forced labour. Moved by his humane heart which was grieved by the conditions of the prisoners, he filed this writ petition seeking relief of an appropriate writ from this Court under Art. 226 of the Constitution compelling authorities to pay prisoners wages for their work.

( 2 ) I commend the public spirit and endeavour of the petitioner who has not yet ceased to weep over others sorrows and sufferings. The glow of his early thought did not decline in feeling s dull decay. His efforts in the interests of tho

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