Kashmir’s hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Saturday said he would write letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Government of Pakistan calling for increased vigil inside prisons and demanding an immediate end to recent attacks against prisoners, which he termed were acts of reprisal.
Geelani, while addressing a press conference at his residence here in the city, said the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan were the ‘custodians’ of prisoners and they should fulfil their responsibility towards securing their lives.
“We will write letters to the Prime Minister of India and caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan and tell them that they should increase vigil on the prisons and should not let these acts of reprisal to continue,” said Geelani.
The hardline separatist said the situation, that had emerged in the recent days beginning with the attack on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani prison and then a subsequent attack on a Pakistani prisoner in Jammu’s KotBalwal jail and death of a prisoner in New Delhi’s Tihar, was worrisome.
"It is the responsibility of both the countries to ensure security of prisoners," Geelani said.
Geelani said the attack on Singh was a criminal negligence on the part of the Pakistani jail authorities. “We have condemned the attack and Sarabjit Singh’s death, but the reaction that has followed is worrying,” he said.
Geelani termed yesterday’s murderous attack on Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah at Jammu’s KotBalwal prison as an act of revenge and demanded that a murder case should be registered against the suspended the superintendent of the KotBalwal jail, RajniSehgal. Geelani accused Sehgal of being communal and asked the Indian and Pakistani Governments to verify the antecedents of the jail authorities to prevent the recurrence of these attacks in the future.
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