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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Prisoner deaths on the rise in Cherlapalli
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From: PVCHR Communication <cfr.pvchr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:46 PM
Subject: Prisoner deaths on the rise in Cherlapalli
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: Lenin Raghuvanshi <pvchr.india@gmail.com>, Upendra <pvchr.adv@gmail.com>
I
want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in
Times of India on 4th November, 2014 regarding Prisoner deaths on the
rise in Cherlapalli http://timesofindia.
Therefore it is a kind request please take appropriate action at earliest.
Thanking You
Sincerely Yours
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Secretary General
Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights
From: PVCHR Communication <cfr.pvchr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:46 PM
Subject: Prisoner deaths on the rise in Cherlapalli
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: Lenin Raghuvanshi <pvchr.india@gmail.com>, Upendra <pvchr.adv@gmail.com>
To,
The Chairperson
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
Secretary General
Prisoner deaths on the rise in Cherlapalli
TNN | Nov 4, 2014, 01.14 AM IST
HYDERABAD:
Death of six prisoners due to health problems in a span of fortnight in
Cherlapalli central prison speaks poorly of conditions. All of the
prisoners were rushed to Gandhi hospital in an emergency situation,
where they died later.
It is learnt that nearly 200 inmates show up at the jail hospital everyday complaining of various ailments. They are given medication and admitted to hospital if the situation warrants. More serious cases are referred to Gandhi Hospital. However, more often than not, the ailing prisoners are rushed to Gandhi Hospital only when their condition becomes irretrievable.
Two deaths were reported in the last 48 hours alone. An undertrial prisoner named Sanjay, 19, from Assam and a convict, B Vidya Sagar, 66, died at Gandhi Hospital after being shifted there in a critical condition. On October 25, a convict, Syed Chand , 54, from Karimnagar also succumbed at the hospital.
Another death was reported on October 20. A 33-year-old convict, Nalla Danaiah, from Ranga Reddy district died at the same hospital due to extensive anterior wall myocardial infarction. On October 16, a convict, Shaik Mastan, 39, from Adilabad district, died of meningitis and acute kidney failure. Sources said the prison which has 1,900 inmates was practically ill-equipped to deal with medical cases until recently. There was only one doctor posted However, it was only a month ago that three more doctors were posted.
Cherlapalli prison being a central correctional centre, prisoners from various districts are brought. With four doctors having been posted in the jail now, the situation is expected to improve.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the prison has taken up a health check-up. The jail also has an ECG machine.
A prison official agreed that there had been an increase in deaths in the recent past. Though the prisons department had been asking the medical and health department to post some doctors, there was no response until a PIL was filed in the high court.
It was only after the matter went to court, that three more doctors were posted.
It is learnt that nearly 200 inmates show up at the jail hospital everyday complaining of various ailments. They are given medication and admitted to hospital if the situation warrants. More serious cases are referred to Gandhi Hospital. However, more often than not, the ailing prisoners are rushed to Gandhi Hospital only when their condition becomes irretrievable.
Two deaths were reported in the last 48 hours alone. An undertrial prisoner named Sanjay, 19, from Assam and a convict, B Vidya Sagar, 66, died at Gandhi Hospital after being shifted there in a critical condition. On October 25, a convict, Syed Chand , 54, from Karimnagar also succumbed at the hospital.
Another death was reported on October 20. A 33-year-old convict, Nalla Danaiah, from Ranga Reddy district died at the same hospital due to extensive anterior wall myocardial infarction. On October 16, a convict, Shaik Mastan, 39, from Adilabad district, died of meningitis and acute kidney failure. Sources said the prison which has 1,900 inmates was practically ill-equipped to deal with medical cases until recently. There was only one doctor posted However, it was only a month ago that three more doctors were posted.
Cherlapalli prison being a central correctional centre, prisoners from various districts are brought. With four doctors having been posted in the jail now, the situation is expected to improve.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the prison has taken up a health check-up. The jail also has an ECG machine.
A prison official agreed that there had been an increase in deaths in the recent past. Though the prisons department had been asking the medical and health department to post some doctors, there was no response until a PIL was filed in the high court.
It was only after the matter went to court, that three more doctors were posted.
Monday, September 29, 2014
A hope of inmates of Varanasi central jail
Link of complain: http://www.detentionwatch.blogspot.in/2014/08/re-releasing-of-inmates-who-spent-more.html
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Strategy of PVCHR on detention watch
In April, 2011 PVCHR[i] in consultation with member
organization of NATT[ii] officially
launched detention watch to monitor any type of detention happening with the adult and
children in Judicial Custody, Police Custody, Custody in Remand Home and Administrative
Custody to strengthen and expansion of its previous work of PVCHR for focusing
on rights of prisoners and rights during the times of detention.
The strategy of the detention watch based on 1.Policy to
practice and 2. Practice to Policy. Article 21 of the Constitution guarantees
the right of personal liberty and thereby prohibits any inhuman, cruel or
degrading treatment to any person whether (s) he is a
national or foreigner. Already many guidelines and direction from time to time
were given by Hon’ble Supreme Court and High Court of various state courts for
the well – being of prisoners and rights during detentions.[iii]
Our strategic actions are as follows:
- Court Intervention: Public Interest Litigation (PIL)[iv] and writ petition
- Meta- Legal Intervention: With various concerned authorities and National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi.
- Rehabilitation of the acquitted prisoners.
- Policy level intervention for prison reform, advocating for the implementation of various recommendations by the committee and intervention on the trial procedures.
- Monitoring the prison and homes through using of Right to Information Act – to know actual knowledge condition of the prisons.
- Visit to juvenile home and visit to correction home for women in collaboration with QIC-AC network.
- Tracking the cases of custodial death, torture in police custody, administrative custody and homes through various site alerts.
[iii]
The existing statutes which have a bearing on regulation and management of
prisons in the country are:
(i) The Indian Penal Code, 1860. (ii) The Prisons Act,
1894. (iii) The Prisoners Act, 1900. (iv) The Identification of Prisoners Act,
1920. (v) Constitution of India, 1950 (vi) The Transfer of Prisoners Act, 1950.
(vii) The Representation of People‟s Act, 1951. (viii) The Prisoners
(Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955.
(ix) The Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. (x) The Code
of Criminal Procedure, 1973. (xi) The Mental Health Act, 1987. (xii) The
Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection) Act, 2000. (xiii) The Repatriation of
Prisoners Act, 2003. (xiv) Model Prison Manual (2003).
3. Various Committees, Commissions and Groups have been
constituted by the State Governments as well as the Government of India (GoI),
from time to time, such as the All India Prison Reforms Committee (1980) under
the Chairmanship of Justice A.N. Mulla (Retd.), R.K. Kapoor Committee (1986)
and Justice Krishna Iyer Committee (1987) to study and make suggestions for
improving the prison conditions and administration, inter alia, with a view to making
them more conducive to the reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners. These
committees made a number of recommendations to improve the conditions of
prisons, prisoners and prison personnel all over the country. In its judgments
on various aspects of prison administration, the Supreme Court of India has
laid down three broad principles regarding imprisonment and custody. Firstly, a
person in prison does not become a non-person; secondly, a person in prison is
entitled to all human rights within the limitations of imprisonment; and,
lastly there is no justification for aggravating the suffering already inherent
in the process of incarceration (From NIMHANS prison strategy)
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Urgent petition on english news portal "F.India/PTI'' on 01 September 2014, Amritsar edition regarding “Police torture over petty theft leads Punjab teen to commit suicide" on Amritsar (Punjab)
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To,
The Chairperson
National Human Rights
Commission
New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
http://www.firstpost.com/
Sep 1, 2014 14:47 IST
Amritsar: A teenager committed suicide here after being allegedly tortured by a cop for his "involvement" in a theft case.
Representational image. Agencies
However, parents of the boy alleged that Harjit was whisked away by police for his alleged involvement in a theft case.
During two days of illegal confinement, he was allegedly inflicted inhuman torture, they alleged.
The moment he was let off by the police, he went to the fields in Sultanwind where he allegedly hanged himself from a tree and died on the spot, his parents alleged.
Police had tortured the boy for allegedly stealing a water pipe that was lying abandoned on roadside.
The parents of deceased demanded strict action besides registration of criminal case against police officials who were responsible for inflicting torture that led him to take extreme step of suicide.
The boy was allegedly tortured by a cop Iqbal Singh posted in the Tarn Taran police who detained him and tortured him mercilessly, the deceased's parents alleged.
Tarn Taran SSP Manmohan Sharma said that Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Iqbal Singh has been placed under suspension.
However, the autopsy of the boy will be conducted by the medical board to check the injury marks, Sharma said.
PTI
Therefore it is kind request please take appropriate
action at earliest.
Thanking You,
Sincerely Yours,
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Founder & CEO
Peoples' Vigilance Committee
on Human Rights
SA 4/2 A Daulatpur, Varanasi – 221002 (U.P)
Mobile No: +91- 9935599333
Email Id: pvchr.india@gmail.com , lenin@pvchr.asia
Urgent petition on "Lack of food behind half of TB cases- Holes in control bid''
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Aug 30 (5 days ago)
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To,
The Chairperson,
National
Human Rights Commission,
New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
I want to bring your kind attention towards the news
paper link of English daily news paper "The Telegraph'' on August 30 , 2014, edition
regarding "Lack of food behind half of TB cases- Holes in control bid'' (news
clipping file annexed).
Lack of food behind half of TB cases- Holes in control bid |
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New Delhi, Aug. 29: Poor
nutrition is the biggest contributor to India’s burden of tuberculosis
and explains why the number of new patients each year has remained
nearly static despite two decades of TB control efforts, a research
study has suggested.
The study has
found that the infections in about 55 per cent of patients — including
67 per cent in girls between 15 and 19 years and 62 per cent in
adolescent boys — appear linked to under-nutrition.
Health researchers
at the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMS), Dehradun, and
McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who conducted the study say their
findings highlight a key factor that activates TB infection but has
been largely ignored by health authorities.
“Our TB control
efforts have focused almost exclusively on biomedical aspects — a
vaccine given during infancy, diagnosis and drug-therapy,” said Anurag
Bhargava, a senior medicine consultant at the HIMS and the study’s lead
author.
The findings were published today in The National Medical Journal of India.
The vaccine does
not provide long-term protection. India’s incidence of TB — new cases
per year — has remained fairly static at about 175 per 100,000
population over the past decade. India’s public health system had
documented over 1.2 million cases in 2012.
The bacilli that
cause TB may remain dormant and silent in the body for years without
causing any symptoms until factors such as poor nutrition, smoking or
diabetes suppress the immunity and cause active disease.
Health experts
estimate that nearly 400 million people in India are already infected
but have no symptoms because their immune systems are keeping the TB
bacilli in check. But impaired immunity puts them at risk of developing
active disease.
“With the focus on
diagnosis and drugs, the importance of nutrition has been ignored,”
said Soumya Swaminathan, director of the National Institute For Research
in Tuberculosis, Chennai, who was not associated with the study.
But while the TB
control programme is responsible for diagnosis and treatment,
Swaminathan and other experts say, ensuring adequate nutrition for the
population could be seen as a task that would involve other non-health
arms of the government.
The study by
Bhargava and his colleagues used national data on under-nutrition to
derive estimates for the proportion of TB cases that could be explained
through this factor. “This (55 per cent) is a big fraction,” said
Madhukar Pai, an epidemiologist at McGill University and co-author of
the study. “It suggests that unless we tackle malnutrition, it may be
difficult to control TB,” Pai said.
An earlier study
published four years ago by health officials who manage the country’s TB
programme had estimated that under-nutrition contributes to only about
31 per cent of the cases, while the proportion linked to HIV infections —
that also lead to suppressed immunity — was estimated to be 11 per
cent.
It has been estimated that smoking accounted for 9 per cent and diabetes for 5 per cent of active TB infections.
However, the
analysis by the HIMS-McGill team found that in three eastern states —
Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand — the fractions of TB cases associated
with poor nutrition were above 60 per cent.
“For all the hype
about economic growth, the epidemic proportions of poor nutrition and
TB suggests that India has a long way to go to address inequity and
improving the health of the poor,” Pai said.
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Therefore it is kind request please take appropriate
action at earliest.
Thanking You,
Sincerely Yours,
Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi
Founder & CEO
Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights/Jan Mitra
Nyas
An Initiative of JMN
SA 4/2 A Daulatpur, Varanasi
Mobile No: +91-9935599333
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Urgent appeal on “School toilets lack water supply, proper hygiene” & “2,355 school in Uttar Pradesh lack girls’ toilets” in Varanasi (U.P)
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To, 26 Aug 2014
The Chairperson
National Human Rights
Commission
New Delhi.
Dear Sir,
I want to bring in your kind attention towards the daily news
published in the local English newspaper The Times of India and Hindustan Times
dated on 19 & 22 August 2014 Varanasi edition regarding “School toilets lack water
supply, proper hygiene” & “2,355
school in Uttar Pradesh lack girls’ toilets” in Varanasi district. (Newspaper clipping
annexed).
Therefore it is kind request please
take appropriate action against related department.
Thanking You,
Sincerely Yours,
Lenin Raghuvanshi
Founder & CEO
Peoples' Vigilance Committee
on Human Rights
SA 4/2 A Daulatpur, Varanasi – 221002 (U.P)
Mobile No: +91- 9935599333
Email Id: pvchr.india@gmail.com
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