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Ranchi, August 5 (HS). The 31st meeting of the Jharkhand State Sentence Review Board was held in the Jharkhand Ministry on Monday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Hemant Soren. In the meeting, the release of 74 prisoners serving life imprisonment in various jails of the state was reviewed.
In the meeting, Chief Minister Hemant Soren approved the decision to release 39 prisoners after thorough discussions and review with officials for the release of 74 prisoners serving life imprisonment in various jails of the state in the light of the recommendation of the State Sentence Review Board. In the course of the review, after discussing the opinions of the courts, Superintendent of Police of the concerned districts, Jail Superintendent and Probation Officer point by point, a consensus was reached on releasing 39 prisoners.
Connect the released prisoners with the mainstream of society
In the meeting, the Chief Minister directed the officials to verify the family background, social and economic status of the prisoners released after serving life sentence in various jails of the state in the light of the recommendation by Jharkhand State Sentence Review Board. The Chief Minister said that a special action plan should be made for income generation for the livelihood of the released prisoners.
The Chief Minister said that the released prisoners should be linked with skill development programs. For linking them to employment, they should be given the benefits of schemes like dairy farm, poultry farm, animal husbandry etc. The Chief Minister said that after being released from prison, these prisoners should not face any social problem in living their life and they should not face financial crisis, for this a better plan should be prepared and they should be linked with self-employment. The Chief Minister said that information should also be collected about the family status of those prisoners who are being released who have become old. The Chief Minister said that it is also the moral responsibility of all of us to link the released prisoners with the main stream of society.
Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Avinash Kumar, Principal Secretary-cum-Law Advisor Law (Justice) Department Nalin Kumar, Principal Secretary Home, Prisons and Disaster Management Department Vandana Dadel, Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi Diwakar Pandey, Director General and Inspector General of Police Jharkhand Anurag Gupta, Inspector General of Prisons Jharkhand Sudarshan Prasad Mandal and other officers were present in the meeting.
