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28-09-2023, 12:21 PM
Namita Singh
Wed, 27 September 2023 at 6:46 pm SGT
A man in India was kept in jail for an extra three years because prison authorities failed to open a bail order sent as an email attachment.
Identified as Chandanji Thakor, the inmate was serving life imprisonment in a murder case but had his conviction suspended by the Gujarat High Court, which issued an order granting him bail.
Covid restrictions at the time of the order in September 2020, when much of India was just coming out of a months-long lockdown, meant it was sent by the court registry via email.
But it has now emerged that the jail authorities failed to “notice” the attached bail order either at that time or when the court again attempted to follow up on the case a few months later in December.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-jailed-ext...52047.html
Wed, 27 September 2023 at 6:46 pm SGT
A man in India was kept in jail for an extra three years because prison authorities failed to open a bail order sent as an email attachment.
Identified as Chandanji Thakor, the inmate was serving life imprisonment in a murder case but had his conviction suspended by the Gujarat High Court, which issued an order granting him bail.
Covid restrictions at the time of the order in September 2020, when much of India was just coming out of a months-long lockdown, meant it was sent by the court registry via email.
But it has now emerged that the jail authorities failed to “notice” the attached bail order either at that time or when the court again attempted to follow up on the case a few months later in December.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-jailed-ext...52047.html
