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| 1,360 undertrials released from jails in J&K | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, May 26: Under a Central Government move set in motion on last Republic Day by Union Law Ministry in order to reduce overcrowding in jails, 1,360 undertrials languishing in prisons of Jammu and Kashmir for years have either been discharged or given bail to end their custody.
The Ministry stated this today here while releasing countrywide figures of undertrials set free until the end of the last month through granting bail or ordering discharge by courts on the basis of figures gathered by it from various High Courts in the country.
This step has been taken under the National Mission for Delivery of Justice and Legal Reforms initiated by Union Law Ministry. The mission mode began on January 26, 2010, said a Press release issued by the Ministry here today, to decongest and ease jails that were getting overcrowded with undertrials and prisoners.
Crediting Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily for the move, the release stated that about 70 percent of country's prisons' population has been those of undertrials and their numbers exceed 3 lakhs. This would be reduced by two-third by the end of July this year, claimed the release.
According to the Ministry, over 90,000 undertrials have been released until the end of April 2010 through either bail given to them or discharge from trial. The State-wise list of undertrials released so far issued by Ministry shows the release of 85,782 undertrials where Uttar Pradesh tops the list with the release of 29009 undertrials and Sikkim stands at the bottom where 18 undertrials have been released.
Delhi alone counts for the release of 8,701 undertrials. The Capital's Tihar Central Jail has in the past reported death of inmates due to overcrowding. This happens mostly in summers. Tihar has also prisoners from Jammu and Kashmir, including Afzal Guru whose faces death sentence in Parliament attack case of December 2001. His lawyer ND Pancholi as per today's newspaper reports sought an early decision on the client's mercy petition with the Rashtrapati Bhavan or his transfer to a prison in J&K where Guru's relatives could visit him.
Besides this certain parties in the border State like People's Democratic Party (PDP) have been demanding release of "political prisoners" confined in jails within the State or outside and elsewhere in the country. These demands are going to be pressed again when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi visit the Valley irrespective of the fact whether the Government could afford to do this or shy from this since it has often been linked to the solution of long drawn insurgency that the State is dogged with.
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