An order restricting lawyers from meeting their undertrial clients in the Tihar Jail to once a week has been challenged in the Delhi High Court. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gitta Mittal and Justice Navin Chawla directed Tihar DG Sudhir Yadav to file a status report also indicating the facilities for lawyers who visit the jail.<br/><br/>Advocate Amit Sahni has sought quashing of a February 2013 order under which lawyers are not allowed to meet their clients more than once a week. He said, the order is against the right of a prisoner to seek legal advice, and curtailing the right of any prisoner under the garb of impugned standing order to have legal interview once a week is bad in law and against constitutional provisions.
News On AIR | May 19, 2017 4:44 PM
Prisoners' right to meet lawyers violated; High Court seeks DG's reply