It was a shocking inhuman act when two minors were stamped on their faces by the staff of the Bhopal Central Jail, as the record of their entry into the prison. The children had gone there to meet an undertrial, a close relative of them, to celebrate Raksha Bandhan.
“We have ordered a probe into the ‘stamping on face’ incident. I condemn it. The officials responsible for the incident will be taken to task,” state minister for jail Kusum Mehedele said on Tuesday.
The prison staff that stamped the entry seal on the minors’ faces were oblivious to the fact that this would leave an impact in their mind for the rest of their life.
“We have sought a report from the jail authorities in connection with the incident,” Dr Raghavendra, chairman of the state commission for children, said.
The jail authorities, however, described the stamping incident as an unintentional goof up which might have occurred ‘inadvertently in the wake of the surge in visitors’ to the jail on the occasion of the Raksha Bandhan.
According to officials, there is a practice of putting an entry seal on every visitor’s hand in order to distinguish them from the jail inmates.
The additional director general (ADG) (jail) G.R. Meena, however, said the jail manuals did not provide for stamping an entry seal on a visitor’s body.
However, at the jail, it has been a practice to put a seal on the visitor’s hands at the time of entry.
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