Lucknow, 7 Jan: The Yogi Adityanath government has directed the Prison Department to produce a list of undertrial offenders who have been held in Uttar Pradesh jails for seven years, have demonstrated excellent attitude towards others, and have confessed to their crimes.
Officials from the Prison Department have been directed to furnish a list of convicts serving terms of less than seven years in each jail. They were also invited to make ideas. A top official said here on Saturday that the papers of such detainees who satisfy the criteria for mercy pleas have been summoned to the headquarters. According to DIG, Prisons, AK Singh, a report on the difficulties experienced by undertrial detainees serving sentences of less than seven years who have asked mercy in all cases has been required from all state prisons.
He stated that the government is compiling a list of undertrial convicts housed in the state’s 62 prisons and Bandi Nari Niketan. The government is also preparing a list of detainees who have not received a relative in the last 12 months, according to DIG Jail. A list of trade-trained convicts has also been requested from the superintendents of all state prisons.
According to the official, all of the convicts incarcerated are not professional criminals; hence, it is critical to treat them with kindness so that they might emerge with positive thinking and abilities and rejoin the mainstream of society.
According to the official, the superintendents of all the state’s jails have been directed to make provisions for blankets and bonfires for the convicts in light of the cold wave with the assistance of social groups and district administration. “We have also been given instructions from the government level to increase the preparations for nutritional meals in jails, as well as the convicts’ interactions with their relatives. All headquarters directives have been conveyed to the superintendents of all state prisons,” he stated.
