Right to perform last rites is part of dignity under Article 21; mechanical denial of parole impermissible: Delhi High Court
The Court reaffirmed that humanitarian factors were a component element to constitutional parole jurisprudence. (AI image) In a prominent restatement of the humanitarian foundation of the parole jurisprudence, the Delhi High Court has considered that the right to hold the last rites of a parent is an imperative religious and moral obligation, and refusal of…