Overcrowded & unconvicted: Why 73% of India’s inmates are waiting for a trial

The New Indian Express 2 h India

There's a principle Indian courts have repeated for decades: bail is the rule, jail is the exception. In practice, though, lower courts rarely apply it that way. And when that happens, pre-trial detention stops functioning as a safeguard and starts working like a tax one levied specifically on people who can't afford to pay their way out of it. For thousands of undertrials, incarceration

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