{"id":208807,"date":"2023-01-13T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=208807"},"modified":"2023-01-13T00:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T19:21:06","slug":"committee-visits-londging-sub-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/committee-visits-londging-sub-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee visits Londging sub-jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LONGDING, 12 Jan:<\/strong> The committee constituted by the state directorate of prisons &amp; correctional administration, pursuant to the Gauhati High Court order dated 15\/12\/2022 in WP (C) suo moto No 8\/2018 (XXX-vs-the State of Assam &amp; 7 Ors), inspected the sub-jail here on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee, headed by Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) Member Secretary Yomge Ado, and accompanied by Longding DSP Banghang Tangjang, the district legal services authority&#8217;s legal retainer Epha Wangpan, and CO Kamjat Ajang, &#8220;took stock of the facilities and various other related issues such as medical attention, food, hygiene, health, safety, bunk beds, etc,&#8221; during the visit, the APSLSA informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee members interacted with the inmates and the jail authority &#8220;regarding the condition and other aspects of jail inmates languishing in the sub-jail,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The inmates were also apprised of free legal aid and services which the legal services institution provides under the National Legal Services Authority&#8217;s free and competent legal services schemes and regulations under Section 12 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, &#8220;in which every person in custody is entitled to free legal services and other facilities,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APSLSA added that it will soon establish a legal aid clinic in Longding to cater to the legal needs of the inmates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of NGO YRG Care, &#8220;which is working to provide HIV prevention and treatment, were also present with the committee during the jail inspection,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A total of 41 inmates, with 36 UTPs, five convicts, including two ladies, were lodged during the visit,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGDING, 12 Jan: The committee constituted by the state directorate of prisons &amp; correctional administration, pursuant to the Gauhati High Court order dated 15\/12\/2022 in WP (C) suo moto No 8\/2018 (XXX-vs-the State of Assam &amp; 7 Ors), inspected the sub-jail here on Thursday. The committee, headed by Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (APSLSA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}