Centre issues advisory to release undertrial prisoners who have served half of their maximum punishment

Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said that the Centre has issued an advisory to release undertrial prisoners who have served half of their maximum punishment provided under the law. 

He said, some state governments have started with the compliance on the advisory. There are about four lakh prisoners in jails and out of them about half are



undertrials. 

He was speaking at a function at the district court in Lucknow yesterday to administer oath to newly elected office bearers of the Central Bar Association. 

The minister said, centre has abolished nearly 1,500 obsolete laws which have lost their efficacy.