Justices Anita Sumanth and Sunder Mohan of #MadrasHighCourt have directed two joint secretaries in the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs to jointly pay ₹50,000 to the High Court Legal Services Committee for not having rendered effective assistance to the court in deciding a habeas corpus petition related to a narcotics convict transferred from Sri Lanka to India. He was convicted by a Sri Lankan court but repatriated to undergo the sentence in an Indian prison in accordance with a bilateral treaty reached between the two nations in 2010 @the_hindu thehindu.com/news/national/…
Justices Anita Sumanth and Sunder Mohan of #MadrasHighCourt have directed two joint secretaries in the Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Home Affairs to jointly pay ₹50,000 to the High Court Legal Services Committee for not having rendered effective assistance to the court in deciding a habeas corpus petition related to a narcotics convict transferred from Sri Lanka to India. He was convicted by a Sri Lankan court but repatriated to undergo the sentence in an Indian prison in accordance with a bilateral treaty reached between the two nations in 2010 @the_hindu
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