Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 14: Administration today revoked detention under Public Safety Act (PSA) of 41 persons who were lodged in jails in Uttar Pradesh.
This is the second PSA revocation in last two days as 36 detention orders were revoked yesterday by the administration and these detainees were lodged in the Jammu and Kashmir jails.
The move is aimed at decongesting jails to contain spread of COVID-19 pandemic. And also UP Government had only last year asked the Jammu and Kashmir Government that they can’t host the detainees beyond March in their jails.
In wake of swelling number of COVID-19 cases across country, the Supreme Court on March 24 had ordered all States and Union Territories to set up high-level panels which would consider releasing all convicts who have been jailed for up to seven years on parole to decongest jails in an attempt to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Home Department revoked detention orders of 36 persons lodged in different jails of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday. They were lodged in different jails including Central jail Srinagar, Kot Bhalwal Central Jail Jammu and jails of Kupwara, Anantnag, Bhaderwah and sub-jail Hira Nagar.
The PSA of all these detainees was about to expire and Government decided not to invoke fresh PSA against them.
From past three weeks, authorities in J&K have so far revoked 181 detention orders who were lodged in several jails in and outside UT.
Last week Government revoked PSA against 20 persons and they were later released. Earlier last month 14 persons who were lodged in Central Jail Srinagar were released after Government revoked their PSA detention order.
Earlier in January 10 this year, the PSA of 26 people was revoked and they were later released from different jails including 10 from Central Jail Srinagar.
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