New high security prison for terrorists being built in J&K

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high security prison for terrorists being built in J&K

 

Nearly 34 years after the outbreak of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, the Government has decided to construct a high security prison for terrorists, secessionists and other anti-national elements in the Union Territory.

The Administrative Council headed by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday allotted land in Jammu’s Kathua district for the establishment of a special jail.

It is for the first time that a special jail is being built in the terror-ravaged UT for convicts and under-trial detainees involved in terrorism, secessionism, sedition and other unlawful subversive activities. As of now, such convicts and under-trials are lodged either in the UT’s own prisons or some jails outside. A number of such detainees remain lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail where the JKLF co-founder Maqbool Bhat and a Jaish-e-Mohammad operative Afzal Guru were executed respectively in 1984 and 2013.

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Some of such detainees have also been lodged from time to time at a couple of jails in Rajasthan and UP. Those currently lodged in Tihar Jail include JKLF’s former ‘Chief Commander’ Yasin Malik who is facing murder charges in more than 60 cases. He has been charge-sheeted in the killing of four Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel in January 1990 and the kidnapping of the then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s daughter, Rubaiya Sayeed, in December 1989.

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