'The worst is solitary confinement'

June 29, 2017 13:51

"When jailors come for weekly visits on Wednesdays and Thursdays we would tell them about the inhuman treatment given to the inmates by prison officials. While they would listen to us patiently and promise action or improvement in our conditions, nothing would change. The jailors were not at all affected by our plight, not even when we told them that pregnant women were beaten up mercilessly by the jail staff."

Sushma Ramteke, who spent almost three years in Byculla jail as an undertrial on the charge of 'association with Maoist ideology', says she was beaten and humiliated by the jail staff.

Out on bail, she recounts her experience to Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com.
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