Police Turn Down 36,000 Requests to Escort Prisoners to Court, Hospitals

Accusations of jeopardising human rights of inmates, proper functioning of prisons, emerge

- SHAN A S @T'Puram

A WHOPPING 36,000 requests from the prison department to escort inmates to courts and hospitals were turned down by the state police between April 2023 and March 2024. The police action jeopardised the human rights of the inmates and the proper functioning of prisons, sources told TNIE. As per the prisons department data accessed by TNIE, police escorts were not provided on 24,385 requests for moving inmates to hospitals, and 12,122 requests for producing the prisoners before the courts.