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Jammu Kashmir to have Guantanamo Bay like Prison

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CM Mufti seeks Rs 7 Crore from Centre

Tawi, June 7: Jammu and may have “Guantanamo Bay' Prison or a structure with same tech and security essentials. Government has sought Rs 7 crore from the Centre to build a high-security prison exclusively for terrorists like the one in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The Union Government had asked Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for constructing a separate jail in Srinagar for imprisoning convicted terrorists from Pakistan and the ones facing trial in terror cases in the wake of a report which said that terror convicts inside the jails are likely to persuade and radicalise petty criminals.

“The J&K government has agreed to the Centre's proposal and asked for Rs 7 crore last month (April) to build a separate jail exclusively for terrorists like the one in Guantanamo,” The Telegraph has quoted a source in the Union Home Ministry as saying in May.

It further quoted a senior Home Ministry official as saying: “The security agencies had cited some examples where ordinary criminals joined terror outfits after being radicalised by terrorists inside jails”.

The report came a day after a Budgam court on May 25 came down heavily on the Jammu and Kashmir Police for what it called the “extra-judicial detention” of separatist leader Masarat Alam and added that “situations like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay cannot be tolerated” in .

In 2015, the Home Ministry had urged state governments to install CCTV cameras and mobile-phone jammers inside jails and keep a tab on high-risk prisoners.

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