After inspecting a standing report filed by the State, a bench of appearing Chief Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rajesh Gaur famous that out of 35,449 inmates in Punjab jails, 15,768 inmates are drug-dependent.
In Amritsar, 2,124 of 4,918 inmates are depending on medication; equally in Bathinda, 1,064 out of 1,978 are drug-dependent.
The Court docket mentioned nearly all of these drug-dependent inmates are of their prime youth. The Court docket remarked that the info revealed a severe problem for the State which should accord highest precedence to the difficulty.
“There can’t be something extra severe than this. What sort of a coverage do now we have to carry these inmates out of drug dependence,” Justice Mishra remarked.
In the meantime Justice Mishra additionally took observe of the apprehensions that the inmates might undergo from well being points in case they aren’t administered the drug doses by authorities.
“That could be true however then I believe there must be one thing labored out,” the Appearing Chief Justice added.
