{"id":13446,"date":"2014-04-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/04\/09\/uk-court-allows-hindu-prisoner-to-perform-father-s-last-rites\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T12:00:00","slug":"uk-court-allows-hindu-prisoner-to-perform-father-s-last-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/04\/09\/uk-court-allows-hindu-prisoner-to-perform-father-s-last-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Court Allows Hindu Prisoner To Perform Father&#8217;s Last Rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/nri\/other-news\/UK-court-allows-Hindu-prisoner-to-perform-fathers-last-rites\/articleshow\/33291995.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON: April 5, 2014(Times of India): In a first-of-its-kind case, a Hindu prisoner being held in a British jail has won the right to perform the last rites at his father&#8217;s funeral following a major legal battle. Joginder Paul Kashyap, serving a default prison sentence over non-payment of a confiscation order at Oakwood prison near the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, was given immediate permission this week to be &#8220;chief mourner&#8221; and have his handcuffs removed to take part in the rituals of the Hindu funeral. <\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old had originally been told by the prison that he could only attend the cremation while handcuffed and accompanied by two guards. He launched judicial review proceedings and a judge ruled earlier this week that the original decision was wrong. &#8220;The claimant&#8217;s handcuffs are to be removed in accordance with the terms set out in the Schedule to this Order,&#8221; reads the court order by Justice Leggatt, sitting at the Administrative Court in Birmingham. <\/p>\n<p>Kashyap&#8217;s claim was backed by the Hindu Council (UK), which gave scriptural advice on the basis that &#8220;it could not be in dispute that the eldest son performs the funeral rites where the offspring consists of sons and that he must be allowed to do so with dignity&#8221;. The case, believed to be the first of its kind, is expected to have wide-reaching repercussions on similar cases across the UK. The prisoner&#8217;s legal team had argued that the decision of the prison was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LONDON: April 5, 2014(Times of India): In a first-of-its-kind case, a Hindu prisoner being held in a British jail,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}