{"id":16962,"date":"2025-01-03T00:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/after-scs-nudge-mha-bars-caste-based-duties-in-prisons\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T00:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:36:09","slug":"after-scs-nudge-mha-bars-caste-based-duties-in-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/after-scs-nudge-mha-bars-caste-based-duties-in-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"After SC&#8217;s nudge, MHA bars caste-based duties in prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian home ministry has revised its model prisons law and manual to comply with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against caste-based discrimination and manual scavenging in jails. It also redefined &#8216;habitual offenders&#8217;. States and Union Territories are directed to implement these changes, ensuring no caste-based discrimination in prisoner duties or living conditions.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian home ministry has revised its model prisons law and manual to comply with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against caste-based discrimination and manual scavenging in jails. It also redefined &#8216;habitual offenders&#8217;. States and Union Territories are directed to implement these changes, ensuring no caste-based discrimination in prisoner duties or living conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}