India, Feb. 19 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted two weeks' time for states and Union Territories (UT) to file compliance reports on removing provisions in their jail manuals that discriminates prisoners based on their caste, gender or any disability.

A bench headed by justice JB Pardiwala passed the order while hearing a suo motu petition for ending discrimination inside jails following a judgment passed by the top court in October last year that sought removal of any provision or practice in jails that perpetrated discrimination based on caste or otherwise in allotment of activities inside prisons.

Senior advocate S Muralidhar who is assisting the court as amicus curiae pointed out that while several states and union territories...