Jama’at-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir Monday expressed deep anguish and concern over the ‘prejudiced’ attitude of jail officials towards Kashmiri detenues and termed it brute violation of human rights.
Jama’at in a statement said, the condition of detainees in Jammu jails are extremely insanitary and unhealthy. “Inmates are being subjugated to worst form of rights abuses and no stone is being unturned to distress the Kashmiri detenues physically and psychologically.”
“These inmates have been lodged and stayed with those criminals who are detained on the charges of decadent and immoral activities. The jail officials are not allowing Kashmiri inmates to meet with their brethren who are lodged in other rooms and are not being permitted to wear black and green colour dresses,” the statement said.
Jama’at said, the intensity of rights abused can be gauged by the behaviour of jail officials who resorted to ethnic discrimination and are flouting the jail manual arbitrary.