Tihar jail authorities Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that they plan to give inmates telephone facility.
\nThe proposal, which is pending with the Delhi home secretary, states: \u201cFirst time offenders will be allowed telephone facilities in their ward itself where they can make one call in a week. Other prisoners can be allowed this facility once in a fortnight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Filing the report before a division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar, standing counsel for Delhi Police Meera Bhatia said: \u201cThe system will record all the conversations along with the date, time and name of the prisoner for the purpose of security.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bhatia also submitted the authorities are already in touch with mobile companies so that full-proof system can be started on urgent basis.<\/p>\n
The court expressed satisfaction over the steps taken by the jail authorities and directed them to file a status report by Dec 16, the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n
The court was hearing on the letter former top police officer R.K. Sharma, serving a life term for the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, wrote demanding telephone facilities for inmates of the country\u2019s largest prison, which houses around 11,000 prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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