Lucknow Monitoring of conduct and dealing of jail officers and personnel, curbing mafioso-jail personnel nexus, holding tabs on the working of tainted jail workers, disposal of pending inquiries, welfare of prisoners and decongesting prisons are a number of the duties seemingly to be allotted to 5 superintendent of police (SP) rank Indian Police Service (IPS) officers posted in UP prisons administration and reform companies division lately on Monday.
The state authorities’s transfer to full overhauling of jail services comes in the wake of the current case of MLA Abbas Ansari, who was illegally allowed to have secret conferences together with his spouse Nikhat Bano and function his enterprise contained in the Chitrakoot jail. In one other such case, it was discovered that mafioso Atiq Ahmad’s brother Ashraf acquired particular services to meet his aides and perform prison activities from jail. The conferences weren’t even logged into the register of Bareilly jail.
On Tuesday, the state authorities had suspended three senior jail superintendents, together with Sashikant Singh of Naini Central Jail in Prayagraj, Rajeev Shukla of Bareilly jail and Avinash Gautam of Banda jail, for ‘dereliction of responsibility’ and ‘extending assist to outstanding mafia lodged in their respective prisons. Furthermore, senior IPS officer Anand Kumar, who remained DG Jail for almost three years, was faraway from the submit and despatched as DG Cooperative Cell on March 31 and SN Sabat was made new DG Jail.
Sabat stated the supervision of 9 jail ranges would enhance with these 5 SP rank officers becoming a member of the division. He defined that each one 75 district jails, sub -jails and central prisons throughout the state have been divided into 9 ranges and correct supervision was not carried out due to a number of vacant posts in the division. Round 20 new high-tech jails have additionally come up in completely different districts inside two to 5 years which can improve the work.
He stated these SP rank officers can be given cost of those jail ranges for more practical supervision of prisons and activities occurring there. He stated three officers, together with Hemant Kutiyal, Himanshu Kumar and Shiv Hari Meena had already reported to the jail headquarters whereas two others have been nonetheless to report.
He stated the supervision of those ranges can be given to these officers for more practical monitoring of conduct and dealing of jail officers and personnel, curbing mafioso-jail workers nexus, holding tabs on the working of tainted jail staff, disposal of pending inquires, welfare of prisoners and decongesting jails.
Notably, two IPS officers Shiv Hari Meena and Subash Chandra Shakya have been given full time postings in the jail division whereas three different officers Hemant Kutiyal, Himanshu Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Srivastava have been given further cost aside from their major tasks in Particular Safety Power, PAC and safety headquarters respectively.