The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission’s (MPHRC) taking cognizance over the incident of unnatural sex in a jail told the Director General (DG) Jail to submit detailed report before it.
The Commission has taken cognizance over the incident of unnatural sex in sub-jail of Niwari in Tikamgarh district where a prisoner molested another prisoner by doing unnatural sex. The incident came to fore when the victim prisoner narrated the story when he came to court for hearing. The victim prisoner said that the incident of unnatural sex by another prisoner is going on with him since long. He made complaints of the same with the jailor and the chief warden but at the place of taking action against the guilty he was silenced by threat.
The Commission in its remark over the incident wrote that the jail officials tries to hide the irregularities going on in the jails that is not at all correct and registered the case with it and asked the DG Jails to submit detailed report of the case with it.Meanwhile, the MPHRC recommended to the Jail department that the medical examination of the prisoners should be done daily besides other recommendations to stop untimely deaths of prisoners in jails.
The Commission made recommendations while reviewing the cases of untimely deaths of prisoners due to health reasons. During the review the fact came before the Commission that as per the existing norms the doctor visits only ten times a month for checkup of the prisoners, due to this timely medical assistance could not be provided to the prisoners.The Commission recommended that this rule of doctors’ visit for ten times in a month should be removed .
and that doctor should be called daily for checkup of the prisoners and the Jail Superintendents should be authorized for this.