SRINAGAR: J&K High Court Bar Association, Srinagar, has strongly condemned the alleged beating, torturing and ill-treating of the detainees and undertrial prisoners of Kashmir by authorities of District Jail Kathua.
Bar has urged the International Red Cross to visit the jail, and has asked 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.
It has asked the lawyer team to interact with Kashmiri and other prisoners lodged in the said jail and submit the report to the Bar Association and the High Court so that further action is taken accordingly, a statement issued by JKHCBA here said.