{"id":119431,"date":"2021-07-17T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T12:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=119431"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:55:33","slug":"bail-orders-will-be-sent-instantly-to-jail-authorities-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bail-orders-will-be-sent-instantly-to-jail-authorities-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail orders will be sent instantly to jail authorities: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G628PBM4J.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hindu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"><b>What is the news?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Chief Justice of India (CJI) announced the rollout of a new scheme called FASTER. It will ensure the timely release of prisoners from jail and uphold their dignity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chief Justice of India announced the rollout of a new scheme called FASTER to cut d<\/span><b>elay in the release of convicts after the grant of bail in a case.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>About FASTER:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It stands for \u2018Fast and Secure Transmission of Electronic Records\u2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would enable the Supreme Court (SC) to instantly, directly, securely, and electronically transmit bail and other orders to jail authorities, district courts, and High Courts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Need for the FASTER scheme<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People given bail <\/span><b>have to wait for days before prison authorities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">release them.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, 13 prisoners in Agra Jail were granted bail by the Supreme Court on July 8 but were released by the prison authorities after a delay of four days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, Pinjra Tod activists walked out of Tihar Jail nearly two days after the Delhi High Court granted them bail.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prison authorities insist on<\/span><b> receiving the \u201cauthentic\u201d hard copy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the bail order, regardless of the fact that personal liberty and dignity are jeopardized due to delays.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Way Ahead<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bench asked <\/span><b>State governments to file their reports about the Internet connectivity in their jails to prevent technical glitches in the future.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Secretary-General of the Supreme Court was directed to submit a comprehensive report formulating the scheme within two weeks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu\u00a0\u00a0 What is the news? The Chief Justice of India (CJI) announced the rollout of a new scheme called FASTER. It will ensure the timely release of prisoners from jail and uphold their dignity.\u00a0 Background: The Chief Justice of India announced the rollout of a new scheme called FASTER to cut delay in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bail-orders-will-be-sent-instantly-to-jail-authorities-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bail orders will be sent instantly to jail authorities: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[8451],"class_list":["post-119431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-bail-orders-will-be-sent-instantly-to-jail-authorities","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703699424},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}