Srinagar (KNO) : After the escape of a prisoner Naveed Jatt alias Abu Hanzallah from the clutches of government forces at SMHS Hospital where he was brought for a medical check-up, the jail authorities have imposed harsh and inhuman restrictions upon the jail inmates without any justification and a number of inmates have been shifted from Central Jail Srinagar to the jails outside the valley as a punishment for no fault of theirs. The inmates have been deprived of all the facilities which they are entitled to under the jail norms and international human rights pertaining to the prisoners. The relatives of the prisoners are subjected to unjustified scrutiny and made to wait for a just ten-minute meeting in between the iron-rod partition hardly able to listen to each other's conversation. The shifting of the under trial prisoners would cause an undue delay in the court proceedings thereby causing great injustice to them and deprivation of the smooth trial.
The jail authorities have virtually turned this jail into a torture camp after the escape incident. Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir asks the human rights organizations to come forward and look into the pathetic conditions of the political prisoners in the jails in Jammu and Kashmir and impress upon the jail administration to honor the fundamental rights of the inmates. Jama’at also condemns the posting of a police officer as the jail superintendent as if a grim law and order situation was to be tackled. By doing so this jail has virtually been turned into an interrogation centre and a big hurdle for relatives of inmates who want to meet their dear ones.(KNO)