Right to Information and the Criminal Justice System.ppt

Very interesting

2. RTI

3. •Appointment of NOVs (State level)
•Warder Vacancies & Recruitment (State level)
•Mental Hospitals in India (Ministry of Health, GOI)
•Mission Undertrial(Ministry of Law & Justice, GOI)
•Review of cases of Undertrialsas an internal reporting
mechanism
•Periodic Review Committees (Rajasthan & other states)
•Prison Visiting System (Rajasthan & other states)
•Special groups –mentally-ill, elderly (Rajasthan)
–foreign nationals (Rajasthan)
–Bangladeshi Nationals (West Bengal)
•Court Productions (Rajasthan)
•Section 436A (West Bengal)

4. •Implementation of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958
•Legal Aid Services (Rajasthan)
•Empanelled lawyers (Rajasthan)
•Legal Aid Camps (Rajasthan)
•Status of Appeals & Legal aid lawyers (NALSA)
•Duty Counsel Schemes in Police Stations, Courts & Prisons
(SLSAs of all States & UTs)
•Deployment of Police Personnel (District level & State level)

5. RTI

6. 1
Initial hurdles with the know-how of the tool
2
Vexing resistance from CJS actors–language problem
3
Building necessary alliances with respective
institutions to speed up response to RTI enquiries
4
5
Device effective means to manage information and
bulky documentation
Coping with procedural delays

7. RTI

8. 1
2
3
Breaking Privilege, Building Openness and Monitoring of
Prisons
Building Evidence on Overstays, Production & Legal
Representation
Effective Implementation of Rights of Undertrials
4
5
Identifying and Tackling Individual Cases of Unnecessary and
Illegal Detention
Merits of Accidental Knowledge

9. Thank you!
Prison Reforms Programme
CHRI