"The failure of justice in the said cases was occasioned by poverty, social exclusion, legal illiteracy, impersonal administration and denial of legal aid. Exactions of poverty are more severe than punishments in law. For them the glorious dawn of the 75th year of independence has lost the sheen of freedom’s ideals and the substance of the republic’s promise.”
PRAYAGRAJ: Observing that every prisoner has a fundamental right to file the bail application without delay, the Allahabad high court has granted bail to a person who had been languishing in jail and could not approach the court as he was financially weak and abandoned by his family after his imprisonment.
