The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently ruled that the power to transfer an undertrial prisoner from one jail to another rests solely with the Magistrate/Court which had remanded the prisoner to a certain prison and not with the prison authorities. The ruling was made in a plea filed by a widowed mother
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