INDIA: CONVICTS ON DEATH ROW NOT TO BE KEPT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: HC

from now, convicts facing the death penalty and confined in various jails of Punjab, Haryana and UT, Chandigarh in India must not be kept in solitary confinement. A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court made it clear that jail inmates on death row must be kept with normal prisoners. The directions were passed by the HC after allowing a Public Interest Litigation filed by human rights activist, Navkiran Singh.