Fwd: Under Trial Prisoners has to purchase medicine from outside

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From: Kirity Roy <kirityroy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Subject: Under Trial Prisoners has to purchase medicine from outside
To: NHRC <covdnhrc@nic.in>
Cc: js-nhrc@nic.in, chiefsec@wb.gov.in, sechome@wb.gov.in

5^th May 2011

 

To

The Chairman

National Human Rights Commission

Faridkot House

Copernicus Marg

New Delhi-110001

 

Respected Sir,

 

We lodge this complaint in the matter of the victims who are under trial prisoners (UTP) presently detained in Berhampur Central Correctional Home, Murshidabad. Due to prolonged detention in unhealthy jail with degrading treatment they have been affected with various kinds of chronic ailments. The authorities of the said correctional home completely neglected and denied providing proper treatment to the victims. The victims are aged and their survival hangs at the mercy of the authorities of the said correctional home. In the meantime one of the victims had to be admitted in Berhampur Sadar Hospital in worsening physical condition. The attending doctor of the said correctional home often handed over medical prescription to the family members of the victims to arrange the medicines written on the prescription from outside market. Our attached fact finding report gives details of the horrific situation prevailing in the said correctional home of which the victims are the worst sufferers. This case also proves that a systematic corruption clubbed with various officials in the Berhampur Central Correctional Home, Murshidabad. Family members of under trial prisoners are being forced to buy medicines from outside which violate the West Bengal Jail Codes. Prescribed medicines signed by the Medical Officer will also prove that most of the medicines are useless.

The incident shouts that the victims are rotting in the said correctional home, neglected and uncared for as the indifference and lack of concern of the jail authorities continued unabated and reached gargantuan proportion. The victims are deprived of enjoying the benefits of the right to life and the equal protection before the law as enshrined in our Constitution.

Hence we demand your urgent intervention in this matter in the following manner:-

• The authorities of Berhampur Central Correctional Home must immediately be directed to arrange all available facilities for proper treatment of the victims and their well recovery from the ailments must also be ensured.
• The personnel who are responsible for neglecting and denying proper treatment to the victims must be booked under the law, be punished for gross dereliction of their duty and for involvement in corruption .
• The whole matter needs to be inquired by a neutral investigating agency and the ongoing irregularities in Berhampur Central Correctional Home must be stopped immediately.  
• The victims must be provided with adequate compensation.

Thanking You,

Yours truly,

 

 

 

 

Kirity Roy

Secretary, MASUM

&

National Convenor, PACTI

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Particulars of the victims:- (1) Mr. Rejaul Molla, son of Mr. Gulmajan Molla, by faith-Muslim, aged about-50years; (2) Mr. Gulmajan Molla, son of Late Hazrat Molla, by faith-Muslim, aged about-75 years; (3) Ms. Manjuma Molla, wife of Mr. Gulmajan Molla, by faith-Muslim, aged about- 62 years; all of village-Durlaverpara, Post Office-Choapara, Police Station-Jalangi, District-Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.

Particulars of the perpetrators: - (1) the Superintendent of Berhampur Central Correctional Home, Murshidabad; (2) the Medical Officer of Berhampur Central Correctional Home, Murshidabad; (3) The Medical Subordinate and other involved staffs of the said correctional home.

Place of incident: - Berhampur Central Correctional Home, Murshidabad

Case Details:-

It is revealed during fact finding that the victims are under trial prisoners presently detained at Berhampur Central Correctional Home, Berhampur. They are accused persons in a criminal case being Jalangi Police Station Case no. 98/2009 dated 9.4.2009. They filed several applications for bail in the court but the same was not allowed. Due to prolonged detention in prison they became affected with different types of chronic ailments.

The victims did not get proper treatment in prison. The attending doctor often handed over medical prescription to the family members of the victims to arrange the medicines written on the prescription from outside market. The family members of the victims had no option but to buy the medicines prescribed on the prescription issued by the doctor of the aforesaid correctional home. The jail authority completely failed to provide the medicines from its own stock for the treatment of the victims. 

Such irregularities in the jail came to fore when the condition of the victims in prison was published in a leading daily English news paper on 31 January 2011.  This publication of news on the condition of the victims in newspaper caused anger towards the victims by the jail authorities. The jail authorities soon started causing mental torture upon the victim by adopting various conspicuous means. The victims told such things to their family members upon meeting in the said correctional home on different times. Even the jail authority completely stopped providing medicines either from its own source or outside.

The physical and mental condition of the victims soon became worse and one of them namely Mr. Rejaul Molla was admitted at Berhampur Sadar Hospital on 2 February 2011.

The victim's family lodged complaint against the jail authorities before the Minister-in-Charge, Department of Correctional Home and Social Development, Govt. of West Bengal; The District Magistrate, Murshidabad, the Additional Director General of Correctional Home, West Bengal and the District Judge, District Judges' Court, Berhampur. The authorities duly received the written complaint of the victim's family. 

Though the victim's family members tried to bring the attention on the condition of the victims in prison by lodging complaint before the aforesaid authorities, but till date there has been no relief to the victims. Berhampur Central Correctional Home has been running under severe irregularities which are evident from the present pathetic condition of the victims.  

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Kirity Roy
Secretary
Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha
(MASUM)
&
National Convenor (PACTI)
Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity
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Phone- +91-33-26220844 / 0845
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