Indian in jail for 38 years without trial
Afp, Faizabad
India's Supreme Court has asked a lower court for the details of a murder after it discovered that a man has spent 38 years in jail without a trial because police lost his papers, a lawyer said Wednesday. Jagjivan Ram Yadav has never had a court appearance although he has been incarcerated for nearly four decades in Faizabad town, about 150 km south-east of Uttar Pradesh's capital, Lucknow. "It is inhuman to see a man languishing in jails because there is no one to pursue his case," said I.B. Singh, convenor of lawyers group, 'We the Citizens', which has taken up Yadav's cause. The group decided to pursue the matter after his case came to light in July when a jail official sought from the court information about the status of trials of all inmates. Yadav, 70, is charged with the murder of a married woman in 1968. He was arrested with 20 others from his village.
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