HC moved over 'worst conditions' in sub-jail

Madras High Court today directed the Principal District Judge of Thiruvallur to inspect the Special Sub-Jail in suburban Poonamallee and file a report after a petition alleged that the conditions there were bad.
A bench comprising Justices Rajiv Shakdher and N Sathishkumar directed the Judge to file his report by November 29.
It passed the order on a petition by one Naziakhanum, a city suburb resident, seeking a direction to transfer her husband, a undertrial prisoner now lodged in the Poonamallee jail, to any central prison.
She submitted that her husband Muhamed Mthuagir and 14 others, facing charges under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal Code, had almost become mentally disturbed because of the "worst conditions prevailing in the special sub-jail."

The petitioner further claimed that the jail looked like a 'zoo'.
Though a representation had been given to the state government to shift the prisoners to any other jail, there was no response to it, she added.