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Jail inmates forced to clean hundreds of toilets without safety gear, HC told
The New Indian Express Vellore
|September 12, 2025
A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking orders to the state government to address the issue of unhygienic sanitary conditions in the prisons across the state and provide adequate protective gears to those inmates who clean the toilets and washrooms.
Advocate E Kishore Kumar filed the PIL. When it came up for hearing before the first bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan on Thursday, senior counsel Abudu Kumar Rajarathnam appearing for the petitioner, submitted that the current conditions in Tamil Nadu prisons raise serious concerns as they fail to meet even th
This story is from the September 12, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vellore.
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