To Be Confined In A Cell - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition to-be-confined-in-a-cell

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To be confined in a cell, the phrase 'to be confined in a cell' does not mean a solitary cell, and 'apart from all other prisoners' only connotes that in a cell where there are a plurality of inmates the death sentence will have to be kept separated from the rest in the same cell but not too close to the others, and under a guard, Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administra-tion, AIR 1978 SC 1675: (1978) 4 SCC 494: (1979) 1 SCR 392.