Amicus says no to artificial insemination,supports conjugal visits for jail inmates

As the came up for resumed hearing,Gupta said that artificial insemination should not be allowed in prisons as the process will only “result in creation of martyrs for the cause long after the man (criminal) is dead”.

Referring to international terrorism,he said,“If prisoner is an icon,artificial insemination will hugely compound his cause”.

Gupta averred that the problem of artificial insemination “goes beyond normal concerns of prison security”. Highlighting the threat international terrorism poses,Gupta said that the liberty of our civilisation is of paramount significance. “We cannot advance the cause at the expense of the whole edifice of civilisation”,he added.

Referring to the operation carried out by the United States of America to search and kill Osama Bin Laden,he said,“even world’s most powerful state did not like to take the risk of identifying the place where Osama was buried. For,it would have been considered as ‘a hallowed ground’ or become ‘mecca of terrorism’. World’s most powerful country is scared of this. So countries with lesser power should be even more scared”.

After recording the statements,Justice Surya Kant adjourned the case for further arguments. It was in 2010 when a prisoner couple housed in Patiala jail had made the demand so that they could give their family an heir.