BANGALORE: A group of North Indian prisoners, most of them undertrials lodged in the central jail in Bangalore, have approached the High Court and demanded that they be served North Indian food, reports The Hindu. They claimed that South Indian meals had made them weak.
The six petitioners, two each from Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, claimed the food was prepared in unhygienic conditions. They said they could not order meals from the canteen as it had been closed since July last year, and wanted the jail authorities to either permit them to receive North Indian food or allow them to cook their food.
There are nearly 50 North Indians in the central jail in Bangalore.
Read the full story here: North Indians can’t digest jail food
If their brains and hands worked in unison to do something wrong in South India, they better have the food from the South too!!!
As the saying goes – What you do is what you get!
Send them to the gallows please.
Serves them right ):
Better yet, make them cook the ragi mudde!
The post says that they are undertrials… They are not yet proven guilty.
50 north indian undertrials in central jail…
hmm..even here we have north indians taking away the localites positions… :)
With their numbers they will soon be getting what they are asking for…
I wonder since when did the north indians started filling the bangalore jails in such large numbers…in view of this, is the KARAVE agitation against the Bhaiyyas justified?
Suppose this wish is granted will there be reciprocal gesture from jails in north india for their southern borthers jail undertrials/inmates to provide ragi mudde and avarekal saaru…just wondering :). What about hygenic(?) cooking conditions in North Indian jails. Do they exist…if not will the conditions be improved suitably
This will not do!!! Tell the KaRaVe cadre serving time along with them to finish them off!…Pipe dreams, ah!
“What about hygenic(?) cooking conditions in North Indian jails.”
I think you get cell phones, cable TV etc. for a price in Patna jails. Like a hotel. The criminals can run their operations even when they are on their government sponsored vacation. No wonder the northie criminals are demanding the same ‘rights’ in jails elsewhere.
Ka Ra Ve should break law, go to jail and beat up these Northies. Ka Ra Ve should forcefeed these Northies with Mudde and Soppu Saaru.
@mayura
the number of south indian people lodged in north indian jails are so less that they can be counted using fingers bcoz south indians are more cultured ans more civilised than north indians….
@Rama
>>Ka Ra Ve should forcefeed these Northies with Mudde and Soppu Saaru<<
Are you crazy?! Mudde and Soppu saaru can be given to more deserving people. Let them starve and die. I suggest they go on a satyagraha and die at the earliest. Good riddance of bad rubbish. Saves a lot of food, time and space.
I can’t believe this is how our educated middle classes think!
This is not about north vs south. This is about the people vs the government vs bureaucracy vs corruption. It should be North and south Indians together vs this plutocracy that we accidentally call a democracy.
If you ever work with NGOs that work in prisons, you will realize a few things, like –
*65% of the people in our jails are undertrials- who are yet to be found guilty. In democracies everywhere – you are innocent until proven guilty – in India – its the other way around – you are guilty until found innocent.
* North or south – the Indian Prison manual is identical in terms of daily food intake though the menu may vary, the amount of nutrition stays the same, (and oh extra – this is not from the manual – its common jail lore – pills are added to the food to make inmates feel less sexually active, the same pills burn up more calcium than usual, increases loss of nutrition through urine etc)
* The only ones in prison are the ones who can’t pay their bail out…ie only poor people….not the well off actual criminals who get others to do their dirty works, knowing and fully understanding the consequences of their actions. When such people are in jail – they have their entire households with them there. Its only the little people who actually rot in jail, the small fry, the desperate criminals for whom theft or prostitution is the last and only choice, the ones who have to sit out their time there without any bonuses.
* Our system is so fucked up, that tomo if you accidentally knock a kid down with your bike, you can be arrested if you don’t have basic funds to bribe the mamu….if you are raped and go to lodge a complain and the cop at the station is in a bad mood – and you don’t have the 500 bucks necessary to catch his interest, and if he gets bugged – you could be arrested for soliciting sex, ie prostitution – if you find a body on the street and have the balls to call the cops to collect it – you could be accused of murder. If you’ve put a few FIRs and NCs against someone and they die, you become the first accused. In other words – you don’t have to be guilty to spend time in an Indian jail, you don’t have to be criminal, and no in this world – your innocence will not shine th rough your nuts.
* In the women’s division of a Indian jails – you will find desperate women. Apart from the dowry hungry bitches, you’ll find women who killed drunken husbands to keep them from beating their kids or raping their older daughters, you will find desperate mothers in for theft – for stealing food or seeds. You will find half burnt women set on fire by dowry hungry families and who chose to stab their mother-in-law before they burnt to death, but then survived the ordeal to emerge the lone murderer. You will find mothers who murdered to send their kids to an english medium school so they don’t become basic wage laborers them selves. You will find women in for half murders – for causing miscarriages.
* Most importantly, in the women’s division – you will find the innocent kids of the criminals – who serve time with their mothers, eat exactly what their mothers are served. And no – they are truly innocent. They don’t deserve their parents’ punishments.
So, for the sake of all the desperate, sad, poor, hungry, lonely, criminals, who are yet to be found guilty, let me tell you – I sat through one of these prison strikes. And I respect the cause, because guilty or not, humans need food, because if guilty and to be hanged – you deserve food till you hang. Criminal or innocent. Because we are civilized people who believe in the basic tenants of human rights.