New Delhi, Sep 05 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday said that the undertrial prisoners, who have already spent in jail half of the period of the sentence they would have got if convicted for the offences they are charged with, will now be released. A bench led by Chief Justice R M Lodha asked the trial judges to start visiting the jails under their jurisdiction from October 1 for a period of two months and release all such prisoners. The court said that the judicial officers shall pass orders of release immediately in jails itself. Such an order, the court said, would be in compliance with the Criminal Procedure Code.
