Srinagar MP meets Amit Shah, seeks release of Kashmiri prisoners
Our Correspondent
Srinagar, August 3
Srinagar’s Member of Parliament and National Conference leader Aga Ruhullah met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday and urged him to release prisoners belonging to the Union Territory, who, he claimed, had been held for years without trial.
“Met the @HMOIndia yesterday evening and asked him for the release of the hundreds of prisoners of J&K who are held without trials for years now. Also asked for the transfer of those who are undertrials and not convicted yet, to the jails of Jammu and Kashmir,” Ruhullah wrote on X.
He also shared the letter, which he submitted to the Home Minister. “I, as the representative of people of J&K, would like to bring to your notice that several of our people have been incarcerated from different regions of the Valley. Wherein many of them are convicted, others are facing trial or are being held without a trial in different parts of the country,” the letter read.
Stating that “most of the prisoners held without a trial happen to be young individuals, it is unfair on part of the government to hold these people at an age that is decisive for career and nation building,” Srinagar MP in the letter said. “So, I believe their release is imperative, and call upon the government to release the prisoners without a trial at the earliest.”
“Also, the weather conditions of the Kashmir province are different from the rest of the nation. These prisoners should be shifted to the Valley on humanitarian aspects. It is difficult for the relatives of these prisoners to meet them in different parts of the country, both geographically and financially,” he said in the letter.
