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 to ensure that he can appear in an examination here. Mir had been booked by police in a case related to “stone pelting and disruption of peace.” He was among hundreds of persons arrested in August last year when the Centre scrapped special status of J&K.Families of the detained people have been demanding shifting of their kin to jails in J&K in the wake of Covid-19 outbreak.Dozens of Kashmiri youth are lodged across six prisons in UP in Lucknow, Bareilly, Ambedkar Nagar, Agra, Prayagraj and Varanasi. “We have been repeatedly making fervent appeal to J&K and central government to shift our kin to the Valley jails,” the families have said. “We fear for their lives.”They said aged parents of these inmates were traumatised as the outbreak was intensifying with each passing hour. “Have mercy and shit them here,” said a family member of a youth detained in UP jail.
