Summary:
Their human rights were curbed in deplorable conditions," he said while demanding constitution of a monitoring group to probe the deaths and inspect jails at regular intervals. The RTI response reveals that 360 prisoners died in 2012, 358 in 2013, 339 in 2014, 359 in 2015, 412 in 2016 in UP jails. "Jails are supposed to reform a person and send him back as a changed person if he committed a crime. The central jail has a capacity of 1,110 inmates but 1,900 are lodged there," Paras said. "Almost 50 per cent of those who died were undertrails, whose crime was yet to be proved..