Right to Vote from Prison
Why in News?
- On 19th March, the Delhi High Court issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) in a PIL, filed by three law students from Uttar Pradesh pertaining to the denial of voting rights to prisoners – both under-trials and convicts.
- Primarily, allegations have been made by the petitioners on the grounds that Section 62(5) of RP Act 1951, is violative of Article 14, 19 and 21 in so far as it prevents a prisoner from exercising his right to expression and that it discriminates between those incarcerated and those out on bail or in preventive detention.
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