Nagpur: Relatives of Parishad Elgar cases accused of being demanded that special facilities to allow phone calls by prisoners begins during Covid pandemics should not be stopped.
This facility has been required for all prisoners, regardless of cases where they have been held.
This happened after the prison authority in the state stopped the facility and continued conventional physical meeting with detainees from this week.
KIN has submitted a memorandum to additional DGP (prison) Sunil Ramanand and Special Inspector Police (prison) Jail Byculla, Chhering Dorje.
They demanded that prison authorities continue with hybrid facilities that allow meeting options in prison and make phone calls.
They also quote examples such as Tihar prison and prison in Jharkhand and Gujarat where the two facilities are continued.
Physical meetings may not be possible for relatives from all prisoners.
There are elderly and financially weak relatives who live far from Mumbai who might not make it every time to meet, relatives emphasize.
Similar facilities have been required to access the lawyers too.
They have to wait in a long queue for their turn and sometimes come repeatedly, said Memorandum.
Susan Abraham, wife of one of the accused, Vernon Gonsalves, said the authorities had provided an effort during a guarantee petition that telephone call facilities would be permitted.
Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya, Shoma Sen’s husband, professor of Nagpur University and the defendant in this case, said that you must first register for a meeting.
“After that they must come in the specified time.
If they miss, the whole process must be repeated again,” he said.
Even in prison, prison and relatives can only meet across the glass panel and talk through the intercom for a fixed time.
Often incomplete conversations and cut lines.
“As long as the two telephone calls are allowed in a week.
Sometimes even video calls are made but we will be happy even if the normal call is continued,” said Bhattacharya.
Given his days as a prisoner in prison in Telangana at this time, he said all political prisoners were allowed to meet their relatives separately in the supervisor’s office or representative.
Sahba Hussain, Mitra Gautam Navlakha, a 70-year-old child accused of in this case, said in the release that he was already in insulation confinement.
“Because it can take victims of his health, two phone calls are permitted so far is the only way for them to connect,” he said.