Custodial torture: HC seeks report on motion taken towards jail physician
1 min read By Express News Service
KOCHI: The High Court on Wednesday directed the Director General of Prisons to file an affidavit on the motion taken towards the physician hooked up to the Poojappura Central Jail in Thiruvananthapuram for the latter’s failure in noting the harm marks on the physique of a convict within the Kevin homicide case.
“The person (doctor) is supposed to be a doctor first, and then a prison official,” the court docket noticed when the case relating to the manhandling of three prisoners within the Central jail got here up for listening to.
It mentioned no seen motion was taken towards the physician regardless of the court docket’s earlier remarks that he failed to notice seen marks or accidents on the homicide convict’s physique. The court docket ordered {that a} detailed report on the medical situation of the three convicts, who’re at present within the Thiruvananthapuram MCH, be filed and the medical certificates of their attending doctor, as as to if they are often discharged or not, be produced.The director basic mentioned orders had been issued to represent disciplinary committees in all main prisons to take care of self-discipline amongst prisoners and staff
