234 prisoners from J&K in UP jails, 27 in Haryana: Govt

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 4

The government today informed the Rajya Sabha that 234 prisoners belonging to Jammu and Kashmir were currently kept in different jails of Uttar Pradesh and 27 other inmates were lodged in Haryana prisons.

Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said a total of 3,248 prisoners were lodged in the jails of Jammu and Kashmir and the total number of prisoners belonging to Jammu and Kashmir, within the state as well as outside, was 3,509.

In 2019, up to November, altogether 234 prisoners belonging to Jammu and Kashmir were in jails in Uttar Pradesh and 27 in Haryana prisons, Reddy said, replying to a written question asked by MP Veerendra Kumar in the Rajya Sabha.

In 2018, 2,728 people were in the jails of Jammu and Kashmir, while 41 other inmates from the state were in the jails of Haryana, the minister added.

These prisoners include those detained after the Centre, on August 5, decided to do away with special provisions accorded to J&K under Article 370 of the Constitution and reorganisation of erstwhile state into two Union territories, as undertrial detainees and convicts.

The cases against those lodged in various jails were related to murder, attempt to murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rape, theft, burglary, dowry death, kidnapping and abduction, cheating, those registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act, Arms Act, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), besides preventive detention, Reddy said.