Tihar hunts for inmates who are on Covid parole
April 15, 2021 08:03
Of the 6,740 prisoners at Tihar Jail who were released on parole last year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, 3,468 have gone missing. Jail authorities have now approached the Delhi Police to help trace them.
Most of the convicts and undertrial prisoners suffering illnesses such as HIV, cancer, kidney dysfunction requiring dialysis, Hepatitis B or C, asthma and TB were released last year to decongest the prison as Covid cases rose. Tihar, with a cumulative capacity of holding 10,026 inmates, is one of the largest prison complexes in South Asia.
Sources said that of those released, 1,184 were convicted inmates let out of Delhis three jails, at Tihar, Mandoli, Rohini. They were initially released for eight weeks, which was later extended from time to time. They were finally supposed to surrender between February 7 and March 6. But out of 1,184, 112 are missing. When jail officials approached their family members, they were told that they were not present at their homes, jail sources said.
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