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'Prisons are built with stones of law' and so it behoves the Court to insist that, in the eye of law, prisoners are persons, not animals, and punish the deviant 'guardians' of the prison system where they go berserk and defile the dignity of the human inmate. Prison houses are part of Indian earth and the Indian Constitution cannot be held at bay by jail officials 'dressed ill a little, brief authority', when Part III is invoked by a convict. For when a prisoner is traumatized, the Constitution suffers a shock. And when the Court takes cognizance of such violence and violation, it does, like the, Hound of Heaven, 'But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace. Deliberate speed and Majestic instancy' follow the official offender and frown down the outlaw adventure.