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More than 120 prisoners of Jammu and Kashmir presented in nine of the Indians of the northern prisons were allowed to call home on Eid in the instance of the Union-interior Minister Amit Shah, people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times.
The minister of the interior had recently issued instructions to compile a list of Kashmiris are behind bars in different prisons so that they can be extended this concession, a government official said.
In total, 122 prisoners in three states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi and allowed to talk with members of your family. Officials said 106 prisoners were on six TO the prisons, while another 15 were lodged in Haryana jails.
This concession was not extended to the people who tried in terror cases.
The gesture, the official said, was an attempt to bring something of happiness in the lives of the prisoners and their families back home in Kashmir. Unlike other prisoners, prisoners of Kashmir does not have many visitors due to logistical reasons.
It also means that for people who are not accused of terrorism-related cases, the government is willing to take a sympathetic view and go an extra mile.
“But for those who are involved in terrorism, saw what happened in the morning,” the official said, in reference to the encounter in south Kashmir’s Kulgam earlier in the day.
Two men, accused of being agents of the ISJK (The Islamic State in Jammu and Kashmir, were shot dead in an encounter. One of them was identified by security forces as Adil Ahmad Wani alias Abu Ibrahim, and the second, Shaheen Bashir Thoker.
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