The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Orissa IG (Prison) V Thiagarajan to take appropriate action on a complaint which alleges that more than 250 inmates are lodged against its capacity of 34 at the Kendrapada district sub-jail in gross human rights violations.
The rights panel has issued the directive to the state prison official acting on a complaint filed by a Supreme Court lawyer here.
Seeking intervention from the human rights watchdog, lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy had claimed that inmates at the"over populated"sub-jail in Kendrapada district of Orissa had also been fighting to get basic amenities.
" More than 250 inmates are packed like sardines in the Kendrapada sub-jail that has a capacity of only 34," Tripathy claimed in his petition.
The inmates are served with poor and unhygienic meals. They have to queue up before the unclean toilets for long or attend in open air inside the jail campus that further worsens the environment," Tripathy claimed.
The only well available in the Kendrapada sub-jail has dried since a couple of weeks." Inmates have been fighting for drops of water. They are tortured by jail officials in case they protest to get adequate water at least to satisfy their thirst. Many of the inmates have fallen sick, “the lawyer claimed.
Source:odishatoday
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