Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, Jul 24: Senior prison officials are learnt to have admitted to having provided five luxury rooms and several other facilities in violation of existing norms to AIADMK general secretary, Sasikala Natarajan. As per information, new additional director general of prisons, N S Megharikh, and deputy inspector general, Revanna, have admitted to most of the contents of the report submitted by DIG Roopa including allowing unregulated access to visitors.
It is said that the officers also said that the report about celebration of birthday by some prisoners at Mangaluru prison was true.
Sasikala -File photo
Party inside Mangaluru prison
During the meeting of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) headed by former home minister and MLA, R Ashoka, which was held on Friday, the officers admitted to these things, as per reports. They agreed to file a report on steps taken to avert these irregularities in the prison, within 15 days.
The committee had summoned the officers to question them about the irregularities and wrongs continuing since the last ten years at the central prison here even after the report of Comptroller and Auditor General submitted in 2004-05 had raised these points and the same were found again in the report of DIG Roopa this year. The then PAC had discussed the issues and recommended suitable steps but the government had failed to take any steps to reform the functioning of the prison.
The CAG report in 2014-15 had again talked about use of cellphones inside prisons, visit by unconnected people in the guise of relatives of prisoners, unregulated entry of vehicles, issue of cells at the discretion of prisoners, irregulartieis in conducting works etc.