Capt calls meeting to review security in state prisons
Sunday, 26/03/2017
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Chandigarh : Taking a note of the violence in Gurdaspur central jail, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has convened a high-level meeting of police and Home Department officials next week to review the security in the state’s prisons. It is learnt that Chief Minister Singh is concerned over ‘frequent incidents of violence and clashes in jails’ since the past several years. Apart from directing authorities concerned to review the security conditions in prisons, Captain has promised sweeping reforms to eliminate the rot from the jails.
At the meeting next week, the government will review the report submitted recently by the high-powered committee on jail reforms and will initiate measures to improve the prison administration in Punjab. “Chief Minister Singh has ordered the concerned officers to deal with the situation in Gurdaspur jail as they deem fit and ensure that law and order is restored in the prison without delay,” said Raveen Thukral, Media Adviser to the Chief Minister, on Saturday.
In his preliminary report on the incident in Gurdaspur jail, Home Secretary N S Kalsi has claimed to have resolved the situation through successful intervention of the police on the intervening night of March 24 and 25. The report says the incident occurred when a few gangsters, undergoing trial in several murder cases, incited inmates of one of the barracks to confront the prison staff after assaulting three jail warders on duty.
“We have put up a plan on how to improve things in the prisons of Punjab. The chief minister is keen that the state of affairs of our prisons should improve. All things will be discussed in detail at the meeting next week,” ADGP, Prisons, Rohit Chowdhary said.
