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| Kashmir bar denied permission to jailmates;to sue authorities | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 7- Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association Srinagar has strongly condemned the action, attitude and behavior of Mirza Saleem Beg Superintendent and RS Jamwal, Deputy Superintendent, Central Jail Kot Balwal in not allowing its members to meet the under trials and detenues lodged in the jail for providing legal aid and assistance, despite High Court order, has decided to file a contempt petition against the Jail officials.
The Bar Association in a handout said Bar members including Mian Abdul Qayoom, Aijaj Bedar, Rafiq Joo and Arshad Indrabi, Advocates, were not allowed to meet the under trials in the Jail. By not allowing the Bar members to meet the under trials, the Jail authorities have committed gross, serious, deliberate and intentional disobedience of the order of the High Court and by doing so having undermined the majesty of the courts and subversion of rule of law, the Bar handout added. The Bar has also decided to highlight the issue with the international Human Rights Associations and Activist.
President Bar Association Srinagar said that the High Court had directed the Jail Superintendent to permit the team members to meet all the detenues and under trial prisoners lodged in the jail for providing legal aid and assistance to them. When the team members served the court order on the Jail Superintendent he asked his Deputy to return their application with the remark that they cannot meet the detenues and under trial prisoners but a selective few whose names should also be given to him writing before allowing such a meeting.
When the team members insisted that the court order was clear and categoric as such they should be allowed to meet them, the Jail Superintendent refused to do so ‘on the ground that is for him and not for the Bar Members to decide as to which detenue and under trial prisoner they should meet and who amongst them needs such aid and assistance’. Upon this the team left in protest without meeting any particular detenue and under trial prisoner, the handout claimed.
The handout further claimed that there are 369 detenues and under trial prisoners of Jammu and Kashmir state lodged in the jail present besides 70 foreigners of whom 127 are convicts, 65 under trial prisoners and 108 detenues under PSA.
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