KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
Painting a grim picture of the state of detainees in Jammu jails, Jamat-e-Islami has asked Kashmir Bar Association to send a team of lawyers to visit jails and report the mess. It alleged the jail officials have resorted to ethnic discrimination and are flouting the jail manual that otherwise guides the jail administration.
“Prisoners are not permitted to move from one barrack to another,” Jamat alleged in a statement. “They are not even permitted to accept the food that their visiting family members are getting along with during permitted visits.”
The statement alleged that jail authorities have asked imprisoned population not to wear clothes of black and green colour.
“At 6am, they are being assembled for attendance where they are served tea and later at 9 am, they are given lunch,” the statement said. “Then they are served tea at 3 pm and dinner at 4 pm. There is nothing in between.”
The Jamaat statement alleged the prisoners have been kept with the professional criminals which makes their life risky. It alleged the situation is almost the same across Jammu jails including Kathua, Kot Balwal, Udhampur and Jammu.
Most of the people arrested during the ongoing crisis have been shifted to Jammu jails. Only a handful of them are in Srinagar Central jail or in Kupwara and Baramulla.
