Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today asked Maharashtra government to take corrective steps towards improving the condition of Yerwada central prison in Pune and providing better facilities to inmates lodged there.

A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi was hearing a petition filed by one Shaikh Ibrahim Abdul, who is lodged in Yerwada central prison, raising the issue of poor condition of the jail.