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Move to shift Parigi sub-jail raises eyebrows
Women accused remanded in custody and attending trials at courts in Parigi, Vikarabad, Tandur and Chevella towns are forced to stay at Chanchalguda jail even though separate barracks are available at Parigi sub-jail.
Jail authorities want to shift it to district jail which is to be constructed at Vikarabad
Parigi (Ranga Reddy): Women accused remanded in custody and attending trials at courts in Parigi, Vikarabad, Tandur and Chevella towns are forced to stay at Chanchalguda jail even though separate barracks are available at Parigi sub-jail. Police personnel and relatives of women remand prisoners are also facing problems as they have to shuttle between courts and Chanchalguda jail along with remanded prisoners.
The then State government set up a sub-jail at Parigi on April 1, 1995. Officials turned the residential quarter of a magistrate into a sub-jail by making some changes instead of constructing a separate sub-jail. The sub-jail was intended to accommodate 17 remanded prisoners. However, the police used to admit 40 to 55 prisoners in the sub-jail, who are attending trials at Parigi, Tandur, Vikarabad and Chevella courts.
Subsequently, on July 16, 2010, the then Director General of Prisons CN Gopinath Reddy inaugurated new barracks in the existing sub-jail. Two spacious barracks were constructed at a cost of Rs 80 lakh in the sub-jail to increase intake of remand prisoners from 17 to 55. However, the police officials are accommodating up to 100 remand prisoners with the increase in cases. In case, if the remanded prisoners are more than 100, the police are sending them to Cherlapalli Central Prison.
After the construction of the new barracks, the prison authorities decided to accommodate only women remand prisoners in the old barracks of the sub-jail. Prison officials spent Rs 6 lakh on repair works of old barracks. The officials have even appointed required women staff and announced that only seven women remand prisoners would be admitted into the old barracks. But facilities were improved at old barracks to accommodate even 20 to 30 women prisoners. A wall was constructed between new barracks and old barracks inside the sub-jail. From then on, the sub-jail was not put to use for women prisoners for unknown reasons.
Recently, Parigi Jail Superintendent Srinivas told The Hans India that staff available at the sub-jail for women remand prisoners would be shifted from Parigi to the district jail which is yet to be constructed at Vikarabad. It is learnt that the officials concerned decided to shift women sub-jail citing the reason that it lacked proper compound wall for protection of inmates. Parigi Bar Association president Anand Goud faulted the prison officials for trying to shift sub-jail for women to Vikarabad. He requested the state government to put to use the sub-jail for women at Parigi for the convenience of police personnel and relatives of undertrial prisoners.
By: Bangla Venkataiah Goud
