District Legal Service Authority (DLSA) Ranchi held a Jail Adalat in Birsa Munda Central Jail on the occasion of Republic Day during which 14 prisoners were released. DLSA members also held an awareness drive on the occasion to inform the inmates about benefits of plea bargaining.
Officials informed that 10 courts were set up for Jail Adalat which heard 29 cases out of which 19 were disposed of. Altogether 18 prisoners benefitted from the special court but four of them could not be released for various reasons. Two of them had not completed their sentence terms while other cases were pending against the remaining persons.
Earlier, chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Swambhu inaugurated the special courts. Apart from CJM, additional CJM Vijay Srivastava, sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) AK Gudia and railway judicial magistrate Abhishek Kumar were among the judicial officers who participated in the process. It may be stated here that earlier the jail superintendent AK Choudhary hoisted the national flag parade ground of the prison.