Bengaluru: Udupi-Chikmagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje on Monday appealed to National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Justice H.L. Dattu to take cognizance of the violation of human rights of prisoners in Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru.
In a letter, Shobha Karandlaje requested Justice Dattu to send NHRC members to study the issue in order to protect the human rights of the prisoners. “Jail is supposed to be the place where the wrong-doers are made to realise their mistakes, introspect and reform in order to become law-abiding citizens but this kind of inhuman and barbaric treatment making them live in subhuman conditions heaping repeated insults would further make them hardened criminals,’’ Shobha said in the letter.
She said that 32 prisoners were beaten black and blue, some were seen limping, some had injuries on their back and stomach, some were bleeding, some had their hands twisted. “In that condition, they were shifted from Bengaluru Central Jail to various other prisons such as Mysuru, Ballari, Belagavi and Davanagere. It was an overnight travel,’’ she said.
The MP said the prisoners have been shifted to various prisons, but their family members were not able to meet them in any jails in the state. “My information from credible sources is that these 32 inmates were shifted to various prisons only to prevent them from further spilling the beans about the dubious and murky happenings inside the jail to Vinay Kumar who has been appointed by the government to inquire into the entire affair,’’ she said.