Government preparing to shift notorious gangsters from Punjab, Haryana to southern jails

   The name of Lawrence Bishnoi, involved in the murder of renowned late singer Sidhu Moosewala, also speaks in the same list.

    The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said that these notorious gangsters will be shifted to a jail in Andaman and Nicobar. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has busted the crime syndicate by conducting raids in north Indian states in multiple phases and the agency has found in its probe that dreaded gangsters were continuously operating from jails.

The union home ministry has been written to shift to southern jails about the identified gangsters. The national agency had earlier also asked for the transfer of 25 gangsters once. Similarly, the Tihar jail administration has also written to the Union Home Ministry. Sources claim that the number of identified gangsters from north India is more than 100, who are being said to be shifted to jails in the southern states.

According to the details, there are a total of 329 prisoners in the Andaman and Nicobar jail at present, out of which 94 are prisoners. If the undertrial gangsters are shifted to southern jails, they will have to appear before the courts through video conferencing.

At present, there are a total of 5.72 lakh prisoners and prisoners in jails across the country. There are a total of 31,762 prisoners and prisoners in Punjab jails, while the number is 28,509 in Haryana jails. Similarly, there are 20,641 prisoners in Delhi jails.

    In 2019, when the Congress was in power in Punjab, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh had also reached out to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, urging him to shift the dreaded gangsters to southern jails.

The Union Home Ministry had also given in-principle approval to the Punjab government at that time, but later it could not be implemented.