A youth from Bandipora district of northern Kashmir who was lodged in an Uttar Pradesh jail has been shifted to Central Jail in summer capital Srinagar.
A police official said Adil Bashir Mir was brought back toensure that he can appear in an examination here.
Mir had been booked bypolice in a case related to “stone pelting and disruption of peace.” He wasamong hundreds of persons arrested in August last year when the Centre scrappedspecial status of J&K.
Families of the detained people have been demanding shiftingof their kin to jails in J&K in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak.
Dozens of Kashmiri youth are lodged across six prisons in UPin Lucknow, Bareilly, Ambedkar Nagar, Agra, Prayagraj and Varanasi.
“We have been repeatedly making fervent appeal to J&Kand central government to shift our kin to the Valley jails,” the families havesaid. “We fear for their lives.”
They said aged parents of these inmates were traumatised asthe outbreak was intensifying with each passing hour. “Have mercy and shit themhere,” said a family member of a youth detained in UP jail.