Jharkhand Jail Reforms 2025: The sentence chaired by Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren agreed to the release of 51 prisoners serving life imprisonment in the review board meeting. Instructions were also given to connect these prisoners with social security schemes.
Jharkahnd news: The 35th meeting of the State Punishment Review Board was held at the CM Residential Office in Ranchi under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Hemant Soren. In this meeting, it has been agreed to release a total of 51 prisoners serving life imprisonment in various districts of the state. In these meetings, 37 new cases related to release were reconsidered on 66 prisoners as well as those cases which were rejected in the previous meetings of the Jharkhand State Punishment Review Board.
Many officers should be present in the meeting
In this meeting, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, Avinash Kumar, Principal Secretary of Home, Jail and Disaster Management Department Vandana Dadel, Director General of Police Anurag Gupta, Principal Secretary-Sidh-Vidhi Advisor Law (Justice) Neeraj Kumar Srivastava, Jail and Reform Services Inspector General Sudarshan Prasad Mandal, Justice Commissioner Anil Kumar Mishra, Chief Probation Officer.
Consent on release of 51 prisoners
Chief Minister Hemant Soren held a point -wise discussion with the officials on the proposal for the release of a total of 103 prisoners who were serving life imprisonment in various jails of the state after recommending the State Sentence Review Board. Each prisoner file was seriously considered for the release of these criminals. After this, the Chief Minister took all kinds of information about the prisoners. After taking information about the age of the recommended prisoners for release and family, social and educational status, CM Hemant Soren agreed to the decision to release a total of 51 prisoners.
Instructions to connect with social security schemes
In cases related to this release, there are some cases in which the prisoners are ill and some of the mental condition of some are not cured. In such cases, prisoners were treated physical and mental. So that they can live their lives smoothly. The release of such prisoners will be considered after the doctor receives the test report. Hemant Soren has directed the officials to connect the prisoners to be connected to social security schemes. During the review in this meeting, the prisoners were being released in the state jails, serving 14 years or more sentence, aged and in view of their conduct in jail. At the same time, the authorities were instructed to motivate the prisoners released to start a better social life.
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619 prisoners released since 2019
After the consensus in the meeting of the Jharkhand State Sentence Revision Board, 619 prisoners of the state have been released since 2019. In this, physical verification of 558 prisoners has also been done by the department. Physical verification of 61 prisoners is yet to be done. The Chief Minister was also told by the officials that 470 of the 619 prisoners released since 2019 have been linked to the schemes run by the government. These include old age pension, widow pension, ration card, Ayushman card, PM Awas Yojana, MNREGA e-ear-card etc. Prisoners who have been released and are not getting the benefit of government schemes are being linked to related schemes and will soon be benefited from the government -run social security schemes.
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