According to a former Chief Justice of India, 60 per cent of the arrests made in India are needless. Seventy per cent of our jail population consists of under-trials, who may be innocent. Many of them have spent more years in jail than the quantum of sentence for the crime for which they are in jail. It is great injustice and gross violation of human rights. The former Law Minister Veerappa Moily had embarked on elimination of backlog in court cases and a large-scale granting of bail. He was inexplicably shifted to another ministry. His successor should pick up the project with equal enthusiasm.
Dr Mookhi Amir Ali
Mumbai, M.S.