The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the surrender of all released convicts and undertrials within 15 days to reduce overcrowding in jails during the Kovid-19 global pandemic.

A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said that undertrials released on emergency bail as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection during the pandemic can seek regular bail from the competent courts after surrender. Are.

The bench said, "All convicts released during the Kovid-19 global pandemic can request the competent courts for suspension of their sentence after surrender." Received was released from various states during the pandemic on the recommendations of the committee.

Most of these prisoners have cases registered against them, which are not heinous in nature.

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