India, Feb. 12 -- Advocate Surendra Gadling and Kabir Kala Manch activist Sagar Gorkhe, arrested in connection with the Ekgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon conspiracy case and lodged in Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai, have moved the Bombay high court, seeking directions to ensure the regular production of undertrial prisoners in the jail in respective trial courts.

"Depriving prisoners the opportunity for physical presence in courts undermine their rights and the essential human dignity they deserve," the petition said, providing details of 305 undertrial prisoners lodged in Taloja jail who were not being produced before the trial courts on due dates.

Taloja has over 2,600 undertrial prisoners, many of them from poor, marginalised backgrounds and...