Eighteen prisoners were released from JP Central Jail, Hazaribagh as per the order of State level committee. All these prisoners have completed 14 years of rigorous punishment in the jail as per the lifetime sentence given to them by the courts.
Jail superintendent Rupam Prasad said that the state imprisonment revision council had sent this order to the jail administration.
She said that we have released the 15 prisoners who have cleared all the formalities of the jail on Friday evening. Remaining three prisoners will also be released from the jail after completion of procedure.
The prisoners who have released are Dhundha Gope, Neva Gope, Bhatu Manjhi and Pappu Choudhary of Bokaro, Chander Mehto, Sudan Mehto, Sanu Mehto, Raju Mehto, Badri Mehto, Basudev Mehto and Kedar Mehto of Giridihi, Suresh Mishra, Gopal Goriye, Durga Ram Pal, Shree Ram Paul of Dhanbad, Rijju Kumar of Ramgarh, Chander Tuddu of Godda and Hare Krishan Roy of Koderma.