Jashpurnagar 12 December 2021. On the instructions of District Legal Services Authority Jashpur President and District and Sessions Judge Smt. Anita Dahria, Secretary, District Miscellaneous Services Authority, Jashpur, Mr. Amit Jindal, inspected the District Jail Jashpur on the last day and organized a legal awareness camp.
He told the prisoners present that according to the plea bargaining, the punishment of up to seven years, except where the offense affects the socio-economic condition of the country or has been committed against a woman or a child of 14 years, is at the discretion of the accused. The matter can be settled mutually on presentation of the application from
In such case the provisions of the Probationary Act or any other law for the time being in force are attracted in the case of the accused, the accused may be released on probation or with half the punishment of minimum punishment or in other case as provided or extended for the offense. shall be punished with one-fourth of the fine. He said that in the judgment and order of the High Court, it has been provided that if the accused goes to jail on conviction or the conviction of the undertrial prisoner, then in addition to the copy of the judgment given to the accused, an additional attested copy of the judgment, Arrangements have been made to send it to the jail authority so that no prisoner is deprived of the right of appeal. Jail Superintendent Shri Manish Sambharkar was also present in the Legal Services Camp.