Citing the epidemic, a convicted prisoner on the Chaudhary Charan Singh District Jail in Meerut denied particular parole granted to him, saying he felt protected from the danger of being launched and catching the virus.
The Supreme Court had directed the state authorities to scale back congestion within the district jails in view of the epidemic. Officials stated that the Meerut prisoner is amongst 21 convicts in 9 jails of Uttar Pradesh, who’ve requested that they not take particular parole and stay in jail.
Ashish Kumar is serving a six-year sentence in Meerut jail in 2015 in Shastri Nagar space of ​​Ghaziabad for abetting his spouse for suicide for dowry. Kumar, a non-public faculty trainer, was arrested in 2016 by the Meerut police.
Following the directions of the UP authorities, 43 convicted prisoners had been shortlisted within the Meerut jail for launch.
Meerut Jail’s SSP BP Pandey stated, ‘We have despatched his request to the federal government for approval and we’ve received the inexperienced sign, which implies that the prisoner will stay in jail until the completion of his sentence of six years.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
