Following on the court notice, the State principal secretary, Home, Umakant Panwar and Inspector General, Jail, PVK Prasad personally appeared before the High Court of Uttarakhand in Nainital on Tuesday. They assured that State Government has allocated land for the jail and addressed water woes of Haldwani jail as well.
The two officials were in the high court to represent their respective offices in the hearing of a public interest filed regarding the poor condition of jail inmates and lack of jail security staff with inmates living in pathetic conditions in the state. Even the jail security staff are facing accommodation problem which is why the High Court had ordered the officials concerned to appear personally before the court.
In affidavit, State government informed to the court that 40 acres of land has been allotted for the Udham Singh Nagar jail while a bore-well has been dug in the Haldwani jail as well. Additionally, the state would soon make appointments to posts at various levels in order to tackle the problem posed by crunch of jail staff.