The Union law and ministry has launched a new system, ‘Fast and secured transmission of electronic records’ (Faster) to enable transmission of electronic copies of interim orders, stay orders, bail orders and proceedings of high courts and district courts to the prison authorities through a secured electronic Communication channel, said Union law and justice minister Kiren Rijiju.
Furnishing a written reply to a query posed by Villupuram MP D Ravikumar, the minister said the ministry launched the system following orders from Supreme Court in July and September this year.
The minister rolled out statistics furnished by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to a query on the number of CCTVs installed in prisons in various states.
Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of CCTVs (2,757) installed in the prisons in the state followed by Gujarat (2,314), Chhattisgarh (1,612), Maharashtra (1,580),Rajasthan(1,529) and Odisha (1,520). Only five other states have installed more than 1,000 CCTVs in the prisons in their states.
Tamil Naduis one of the 14 states that have installed less than 100 CCTVs in the prisons in their states.MizoramandLakshadweephave not installed even a single CCTV in the prisons.