Srinagar: J&K High Court Bar Association on Wednesday strongly condemns the beating, torturing and ill-treating of the detainees and under-trial prisoners belonging to Kashmir by the authorities of District Jail Kathua.
The lawyers’ body also requested the International Red Cross to visit the jail as well as the team of lawyers, who have been permitted by the High Court to visit the different jails of the State and outside for providing necessary legal aid and assistance to the prisoners lodged in those jails, to visit District Jail, Kathua.
“(The team) is requested to interact with the Kashmiri and other prisoners lodged in the jail and submit their report to the Bar Association and to the High Court which is already seized of the matter, so that further action is taken in the matter accordingly,” the lawyers’ body said.
