Probe use of orderlies by prison officials, free them, says HC

EXPRESSING concern over the colonial practice of employing orderlies for household chores, the Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu home secretary to hold an inquiry into the employment of orderlies in the residences of higher officials of the prisons department and free them.

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"In view of the above situation, we direct the home secretary to conduct an elaborate inquiry either with the assistance of CBCID police or by getting necessary inputs from the intelligence wing and initiate all appropriate actions against the prison authorities who have engaged the uniformed personnel/public servants for their residential work or personal work," a division bench of Justices S M Subramaniam and M Jothiraman said in a recent orde