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The Sabarmati Central Jail, Gujarat's biggest prison, is rocking. Hardcore RDX smugglers, terrorists and rapists rub shoulders with petty thieves and cheats, as they enjoy live dayro (poetry recitals) performances or practice break dance! If one goes by a letter addressed to the Ahmedabad police commissionerate, apparently by an insider, prisoners are getting a taste of the good life even in confinement.
Signed, 'a whistle blower', the letter details how prisoners who would never have seen a treadmill in their lives now get to workout on latest equipment donated by a popular city-based body builder, and if you bribe the jailor, you can get a good deal of private time with your wife as well! "In the name of jail reforms, yoga and aerobics, prisoners get to watch and practice break dance," the letter states. After a murder took place in the Sabarmati jail some years back, the Gujarat high court had directed that convicts and undertrials be kept separately. Prison authorities followed the order.
"However, on December 5, a dayro artist, Maya Ahir, performed on the prison premises to a mixed audience of convicts and undertrials until 8 pm." The jail manual does not permit prisoners to be out of their barracks after 6 pm. The father of slain RTI activist Amit Jethava has complained to Inspector General of Police ( Prisons) how prime accused in his son's murder, Shiva Solanki, freely uses his laptop and cellphone inside the jail. The 'whistle blower' also writes how last month 13 cellphones were found from RDX smugglers Shahnawaz Bhatti and others, lodged in the high security enclosure in Sabarmati jail, but an FIR was lodged against a petty criminal, Amit Darji. Even the fact that cellphones were found was not recorded in the jail register
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