141 women prisoners of five jails shifted to Karnal

Yamunanagar, July 1

As many as 141 women prisoners, including convicts and undertrials, have been shifted to district jail, Karnal, from five district jails to set up quarantine wards in the female wards of these jails for new prisoners with an aim to stop the spread of Covid among old prisoners.

According to information, the women prisoners were sent to Karnal jail from district jails of Sonepat, Panipat, Kurukshetra, Kaithal and Yamunanagar from June 23 to June 27.

“As many as 43 women prisoners were sent to our jail from Sonepat jail. Similarly, 31 women prisoners each from Panipat and Kurukshetra districts, 18 prisoners each from Kaithal and Yamunanagar districts were sent here,” said Amit Kumar Bhadu, Superintendent, District Jail, Karnal.

He said they now had 169 women prisoners including 28 women prisoners of Karnal jail. The decision of shifting women prisoners from five districts to district jail, Karnal; women prisoners of district jails Bhiwani and Sirsa to Central Jail, Hisar-2; and women prisoners of district jail Narnaul to district jail, Jhajjar, was taken at a meeting of Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA), Panchkula.

The meeting of HALSA was held under the chairmanship of Executive Chairman of the authority, Justice Rajiv Sharma, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court, through video conferencing.

Ratan Singh, Superintendent, district jail, Yamunanagar, said a number of difficulties were being faced by the authorities due to insufficient infrastructure for effective isolation of prisoners. — TNS