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Bihar Prisoners` Act amended
Patna, Sept 30: The Bihar government has amended the prisoners` act through a special ordinance empowering the authorities to transfer an undertrial prisoner from one jail to another.
Patna, Sept 30: The Bihar government has amended the prisoners' act through a special ordinance empowering the authorities to transfer an undertrial prisoner from one jail to
another.
Bihar Minister of State for Jails, Ashok Choudhary told a news agency today that following the amendment the DMS would have now power to shift an undertrial prisoner from one jail to another within the district, while the IG (prisons) had been empowered to transfer an undertrial to any jail across the state.
Stating that earlier a competent court's permission was mandatory to shift an undertrial from one jail to another, he said that the amendment was made as the Patna High Court recently quashed the state government's order relating to transfer of Ranveer Sena chief Barmeshwar Singh Mukhiya from Beur Central Jail here to Bhagalpur Central Jail.
The court had stopped Mukhiya's shifting on the ground that the prisoners' act had no specific provision for shifting the undertrials from one jail to another, the minister said.
As the assembly was not in session it was sent to the Governor in the form of an ordinance. After Governor's approval, it was notified in the gazette on September 16, Choudhary said.
Bureau Report
Stating that earlier a competent court's permission was mandatory to shift an undertrial from one jail to another, he said that the amendment was made as the Patna High Court recently quashed the state government's order relating to transfer of Ranveer Sena chief Barmeshwar Singh Mukhiya from Beur Central Jail here to Bhagalpur Central Jail.
The court had stopped Mukhiya's shifting on the ground that the prisoners' act had no specific provision for shifting the undertrials from one jail to another, the minister said.
As the assembly was not in session it was sent to the Governor in the form of an ordinance. After Governor's approval, it was notified in the gazette on September 16, Choudhary said.
Bureau Report