Kolkata jails are turning into havens for captured jihads.
Abul Subhan, who was arrested on July 20 from North Delhi, disclosed to the Delhi police that he had contacted his nephew Asahbuddin alias Shahbuddin Shaukat — who has been handed life imprisonment in the Partha Roy Burman kidnapping case and is presently lodged in a Kolkata jail.
Such revelations are not new. A previous search of jail cells had yielded 355 cell phones and more than double the number of SIM cards.
Numerous terror accused and operatives jailed in Kolkata jails routinely operate out of their jail cells with ease to difference parts of the country and abroad.
This terror network is routinely ignored by the jail authorities as easily as ignoring the drug trade going in in the jails and other murderous activities. The jail authorities do not inform the police of their knowledge nor do they take appropriate action like lodging FIRs on time.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has on occasion visited several jails to take stock of the matter but to no change in the situation.
Unless there is an end to the political patronage of criminals there is no hope of beginning jail reforms in West Bengal.
Abul Subhan, who was arrested on July 20 from North Delhi, disclosed to the Delhi police that he had contacted his nephew Asahbuddin alias Shahbuddin Shaukat — who has been handed life imprisonment in the Partha Roy Burman kidnapping case and is presently lodged in a Kolkata jail.
Such revelations are not new. A previous search of jail cells had yielded 355 cell phones and more than double the number of SIM cards.
Numerous terror accused and operatives jailed in Kolkata jails routinely operate out of their jail cells with ease to difference parts of the country and abroad.
This terror network is routinely ignored by the jail authorities as easily as ignoring the drug trade going in in the jails and other murderous activities. The jail authorities do not inform the police of their knowledge nor do they take appropriate action like lodging FIRs on time.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has on occasion visited several jails to take stock of the matter but to no change in the situation.
Unless there is an end to the political patronage of criminals there is no hope of beginning jail reforms in West Bengal.
West Bengal is known for safe haven for jihadis. Direct consequence of blind appeasement by CPM and now by TMC. Situation is alarming - but, as expected, "gobment" turns a blind eye. After all - Assembly elections are not that far !
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