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RESEARCH:
2021-2023
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PUBLISHED
2023
Magistrates & Constitutional Protections: An ethnographic study of first production and remand in Delhi courts
Criminalisation & Punishment
Torture
Mental Health
To draw attention to issues of production before the magistrate within the first 24 hours of arrest and the manner in which core constitutional protections are translated into legal processes at the level of the magistracy.
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Process
The report looks at the work and journey of two implementing partner organisations of the programme- Fair Trial Programme and Prayas, and reflects on their interventions through legal and social work fellows, from 2018 to 2021. The work included:
- Institutional collaborations by the programme with FTP and Prayas
- Setting up a fellowship model comprising of both Legal and Social Work Fellows
- Integration of interventions with prison and legal services authorities
- Proactively offering legal services with a higher degree of responsiveness
- Effective coordination between the prison, LSAs, Panel Advocates, courts, and families of clients in providing legal services
- Understanding the challenges faced and insights gained during the programme
- Devising a way forward for better legal aid representation to the undertrial prison population
