Ordinance on video link between jails, courts promulgated

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, DEC. 11. The Governor, Dr C. Rangarajan, has promulgated an ordinance which facilitates the production of an undertrial before a magistrate through the video-conferencing method. The ordinance is expected to solve a major problem of providing armed escort to undertrials.

According to an official press release here on Monday, the ordinance amends sub-section 2 of 167 Cr.P.C. facilitating the production of an accused person before the magistrate concerned "either in person or through the medium of video linkage". The video linkage provided between jails and courts is the first of its kind in the country.

The video-presentation of an accused person before the magistrate is expected to solve the major problem of undertrials being incarcerated in jails without being produced in courts due to acute shortage of escort personnel. The other benefit of the new system would be that the prisoners would not have any chance to escape and lot of time and money is saved in transportation of the remand prisoners to court, the press release added.

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