Tihar Jail:
What's behind the walls
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It is not just a place where criminals, petty
and hardened, are held. And it is not just another jail. Tihar Jail is now
positioned as a correction centre. One of the larger jails in South Asia spread
over 400 acres, it has over the years played host to political prisoners,
convicts and undertrials.
Prior to 1958, a small Jail was located at Delhi
Gate area of Delhi. In 1958, the prison was transferred from Delhi Gate to a
site on the land of Tihar Village in western part of New Delhi. In the
beginning, only one Central Jail was commissioned with the lodging capacity of
1273 prisoners. Till 1966, the administrative control of Delhi Jails was with
the Government of the state of Punjab. The same was transferred to the Delhi
Administration, Delhi in 1966.
QUICK FACTS
Commissioned in 1958 with a single jail to hold
1,273 prisoners.
Expanded over the years to nine prisons within
the Tihar complex and one at Rohini in northwest Delhi to hold 6,250 inmates.
Number of inmates, at about 12,300, is double
the capacity. 544 of the prisoners are women.
24.6% of the undertrials (2,255) have been
behind bar for more than 12 months. And 124 for more than 5 years.
61% of the prisoners (7,535) are in the age
group of 18-30.
1,109 prisoners, including 58 women, are serving
life term. 22, including 2 women, have been sentenced to death.
TIHAR, THE
FACTORY
Inmates are employed in carpentry, weaving
(handloom and powerloom), tailoring, paper-making, food processing, pottery,
shoemaking & baking.
Products are sold at Tihar Haat under the brand
TJ's.
Prisoner's Wages : ( 2011 )
The inmates
employed in factory are provided wages at the rates prescribed by Government of
Delhi as follows :
Skilled
Worker : Rs.52 per day
Semi-skilled
worker : Rs.44 per day
Unskilled
worker : Rs.40 per day
DAILY ROUTINE
- At 5:30 in the morning, it is time for a
headcount.
- An hour later, it is breakfast, not served by servants, but a meal that has to
be collected standing in queue. The menu is two slices of bread and a cup of
tea.
- By 9 am, he will have to be bathed and ready.
- Lunch, that has rotis, rice, dal and just one vegetable, has to be collected
by 9 am.
- At about noon, visitors are allowed.
- Till about 3 pm they are locked in, but some VIPs can read or watch TV in his
cell.
- Tea time is at 3 pm where he can have a cup of tea and two biscuits.
- By 6 pm, dinner has to be collected after which he will be locked up in his
cell.
From fancy meals to 'jail ki roti' and from comfortable beds to just a blanket
on the floor, this is one outing VIPs will remember for the rest of their
life.
Accused of
corruption
A Raja
MK Kanimozhi
Suresh Kalmadi
FAMOUS INMATES
Political prisoners
Indira Gandhi
JP Narayan
Anna Hazare
Vijayaraje Scindia
Gayatri Devi
George Fernandes
Sanjay Gandhi
On death row
Afzal Guru (Parliament attack)
Devender Pal Singh Bhullar (Attack on Maninder
Jeet Singh Bitta)
Businessmen
Rajan Pillai
Sanjay Chandra
Shahid Balwa
Been here &
released
Charles Sobhraj
Ahmed Omar Saeed (was released in Kandahar;
murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan later)
Facts & figures
75% of the inmates (9,186) are undertrials. Only
25% are convicts.
43 inmates placed with various companies
recently.
Tihar has a Facebook page.
( Courtesy
Priyanka Dube,
CNN-IBN , And
Economic times
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/ )
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