Convict at Meerut jail cites Covid, refuses parole

Citing the pandemic, a convicted prisoner on the Chaudhary Charan Singh District Prison in Meerut has refused the particular parole granted to him, saying he felt safer incarcerated than being launched and threat catching the virus.
The Supreme Court had directed the state authorities to decongest district prisons in view of the pandemic. The Meerut prisoner is amongst 21 convicts throughout 9 jails in Uttar Pradesh who’ve requested that they not take up the particular parole and stay incarcerated, officers mentioned.
Ashish Kumar is serving a six-year sentence on the Meerut jail over abetting his spouse suicide over dowry in Ghaziabad’s Shastri Nagar space in 2015. A instructor at a personal faculty, Kumar was arrested by Meerut police in 2016.
Following directives from the UP authorities, 43 convicted prisoners at Meerut jail had been shortlisted for being launched.
Meerut jail SSP B P Pandey mentioned, “We have sent his request to the government for approval and we have got a green signal, which means that the prisoner in question will remain in jail till he completes his sentence of six years.”