DLSA Udhampur organizes awareness for jail inmates on Plea Bargaining, Rights of Prisoners, bail provisions

Udhampur : District Legal Services Authority Udhampur on Thursday organized an Awareness Programme for District Jail inmates on the topic “Plea Bargaining, Rights of Prisoners and bail provisions” under the guidance of Chairman DLSA Udhampur, Y. P. Bourney (Pr. Distt. & Sessions Judge Udhampur) and overall supervision of Secretary District Legal Services Authority Udhampur, Rajni Sharma in collaboration with District Jail Udhampur.
Chief Guest of the programme was Advocate J.D. Salathia, Bar President Udhampur and Advocate A.K. Salaria was the special invitee to the awareness programme.
Advocate Pawan Gupta and Advocate Akhil Dubey (Panel Lawyers) were the resource persons for the programme who threw light on the importance of the topic and shared their valuable knowledge on the subject with the participants of this programme.
The programme was organized as per the mandate of the Calendar of the Programme of Jammu & Kashmir Legal Services Authority for the month of August 2022. The objective of conducting this programme was to encourage the jail inmates to understand the importance of Plea Bargaining and Bail provisions provided by the Criminal Procedure Code.
Resource Persons discussed all the provisions pertaining to Plea Bargaining lucidly along with its practical aspects. They explained all the provisions pertaining to Plea Bargaining and bail provisions along with its practical aspects and also highlighted various Constitutional and other statutory provisions related to the rights of Prisoners. Queries of the Jail inmates were also answered on the occasion.
While speaking on the occasion, Panel Lawyer Adv. Pawan Gupta and Adv. Akhil Dubey explained basic Rights of Prisoners like protection from torture and violence, terms and conditions for parole etc.
The Secretary District Legal Services Authority Udhampur, Rajni Sharma later thanked the resource persons and other participants of the awareness programme and reiterated the mission of Legal Services Institutions to provide legal aid and legal awareness to all the distressed sections of the society including jail inmates.
Besides others, all the jail inmates, along with Superintendent and staff members of district Jail Udhampur were also present in the awareness programme.