A high-powered committee appointed by the Maharashtra federal government has chosen to briefly release around 50?tainees to decongest prisons throughout the State in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It has, nevertheless, not specified whenever frame for the prison authorities to release the prisoners.
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The panel, while taking the choice on Monday, likewise said that detainees founded guilty or scheduled on severe charges under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and rigid law provisions like the MCOCA, UAPA and PMLA will not be launched on temporary bail or parole.
The committee, comprising Bombay High Court Justice A Sayed, Additional Chief Secretary of state Home department Sanjay Chahande and Maharashtra Director General Prisons S N Pandey, was established after the Supreme Court in March called for decongestion of prisons across the countr