Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court had given a landmark judgment that prisoners in jail also have the right to have sex with their legal partners.
The court said that it is the fundamental right of jail inmates and convicts to be allowed to have conjugal visits or artificial insemination if they are married and want to have a child.
As per reports, Justice Surya Kant observed, “A society which is currently involved in academic and intellectual debates on ‘gay-rights’ or the recognition of ‘third-gender’, cannot shy away nor can it keep concealed under the carpet the pragmatic concept of conjugal visits of the jail inmates. To say it differently, time has come and before it is too late, the stake-holders must sit together and deliberate upon this crucial subject and take a holistic view.”
While dismissing a plea of a couple Jasvir Singh and Sonia, Justice Kant made the observation while dismissing a plea by a couple Jasvir Singh and Sonia.
They had lodged plea at the Patiala Central Jail.
The duo, who was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of a teenager, had pleaded the court to allow them to resume their conjugal life for the sake of child birth.
Meanwhile the plea had been dismissed by court over the heinous nature of their crime, it allowed jail inmates in general to have conjugal visits for progeny.
Bureau Report
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