New Delhi, July 8, 2022: In conversation with Ten News, The Passport Man of India, Dr. Dnyaneshwar Manohar Mulay, a member of the NHRC, a former Indian Foreign Service diplomat took a stance on the debate, ‘Do human rights take precedence over actions?’ “The Constitution guarantees certain basic rights and also endows certain duties on every individual,” he said. “Without duties, there are no rights to enjoy.”
“Even prisoners deserve human rights,” he stated. “If the laws have given him the punishment of the death penalty, he will not be there. The fact that he has been given a life sentence. The fact that he has been given three years or five years of imprisonment means that he has a right to live.”
“The Right to Live is guaranteed by the Constitution,” Dr. Mulay said. “It is nobody’s gift. It is not given by one person to another person, it is given to us by us,” he added.
Dr. Mulay shared his experience of visiting a prisoner in Bihar, “Just because of the recent ban on drinking alcohol, thousands of young boys are inside the jail,” he narrated and raised a thought-provoking question, just because they are imprisoned do they not deserve basic human rights like food, clean washrooms, and dignity.
“When I went to the Patna jail, I found that there were UPSC aspirants sitting in the jail,” Dr. Mulay said with revelation. “And then subsequently when I met the judge, he said that I have given them special leave to attend UPSC examination,” he said. “So, we have to think about rehabilitation also.”
“Criminals are created by society itself because of the circumstances,” he said empathetically. “Let’s not treat them as untouchables or foreigners or degraded human beings,” he said. “These are all humanitarian issues and provisions have been made in the constitution and in the laws to give them proper protection.”
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