File photo of Judge Madan B. Lokur. | Photo credit: the Hindu
Even when India seeks the return of the fugitive diamond businessman, Mehul Choksi, accused of fraud for a sum of ₹ 13,578 million rupees in the case of the National Bank of Punjab, the former judge of the Supreme Court B. Lokur, such day of the Lord, are improved). Judge Lokur also presides over the United Nations Internal Justice Council.
It was a talk at the launch of the India Justice Report, 2025, an initiative initiated by Tata Trusts and supported by several civil society organizations and data partners. They collectively track the performance of states into four areas: police, judicial, prisons and legal assistance.
Judge Lokur cited the recent judgment of a United Kingdom court that would be the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, a defense consultant wanted for charges of tax evasion and money laundering, citing the insecure within the Tiar prison in Delhi.
Torture, prison conditions
Judge Lokur, who said he has read the order of the Court of Appeals, added that extradition was rejected by torture and the conditions of prisons in India. He also said that the United Kingdom Court had asked the Indian Government for guarantees on the conditions in jail four times, but only received a response from Wishy-Washy.
“The United Kingdom Court had mentioned Christian Michel’s issue, which is in a jail for many years. Recently, Michel was granted bond and said he does not do it because. Rather subject to Myelf to the conditions of the bond, this is mentioned by them,” Judge Lokur said.
Michel is an alleged intermediary in the case of Agustavestland and is housed in the Tihar prison since 2018.
CCTV security
Judge Lokur said that the United Kingdom Court had also noticed the case of Jagtar Johal, who died in an Indian prison, along with the case of Tillu Tajpuria, who was also killed in Tihaha.
“Video cameras, the CCTV have photos of murder tasks. Nothing has happened. The prison staff were standing there, looking and was beaten and died. Ankit Gujjar was killed in the Tihar prison and the matter is pending in Delhi Bang, so we have been Bang”, Sog. Hey added. “Then, taking into account all this together with the reports of the bribes that are delivered to the prison staff, no government control over what is happening in prisons, the United Kingdom Court said that he considers that sending Mr. Bhandari to India to put himself in jail is not a good idea.
“This ruling will have a very serious impact, when India has been 100-120 Extradition Rchests pending in several courts of the world,” Judge Lokur said. Meanwhile, the IJR 2025 lists the serious lagoons in the Indian Judiciary, the Police, the prisons and the legal aid. The report declared that there is only one civil police personnel available for 831 people in India and that not a single state/UT complies with their own quotas reserved for women in the police force. He added that about 17% of police stations in the country do not have a single CCTV, while 3 out of 10 police stations do not have women aid desks for women.
PENDENCY OF SIVERS
The IJR also reveals that they are 1,000 women in higher positions among 20.3 Lakh personnel in the police force.
He added that Uttar Pradesh has the most overpopulated prisons, claiming that more than half of the judges of the Superior Court are missing in the state. In addition, that 91% of Delhi’s prison population consisted or underlying.
The IJR 2025 indicates that the courts of judgment and district in Bihar have 71% of pending cases for more than 3 years. The Gujarat has the highest vacancies in the judges and the staff of the Superior Court, the report revealed.
The report also declared that the national expenditure per capita in legal assistance, is a scarce ₹ 6 per year and that the national per capita spent in prisons is ₹ 57. The national expenditure per capita in the Judiciary is found in ₹ 182. No state in India spent more than 1% of its total annual expenditure on the Judiciary.
Arunachal Pradesh, who established his State Human Rights Commission in 2023, does not have a functional website for it, until now, the report said.
Published – April 15, 2025 10:39 PM IST
