India: At least 1,000 undertrials released on bail in Bengal due to corona
Kolkata, Apr 3 (PTI) At least 1,000 undertrial prisoners have been released from various correctional homes in West Bengal on interim bail in keeping with the Supreme Court's directions to consider decongesting the jails in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, a senior official said here on Friday.
The process of granting bail to the undertrials commenced on March 23, State Legal Services Authority secretary Durga Khaitan said.