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5 infants forced to live in jail in Punjab

With none of their relatives ready to look after them, at least five infants are forced to live in a dingy cell at Central Jail, Gurdaspur along with their convicted or undertrial mothers or guardians.

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With none of their relatives ready to look after them, at least five infants are forced to live in a dingy cell at Central Jail, Gurdaspur along with their convicted or undertrial mothers or guardians.

Out of a total of 69 women inmates at the jail five are lodged with children aged one to two years as there was no one among their relatives willing to take them along, jail superintendent Baljinder Singh Gill said.

While four of these women are undertrials, one is serving an eight-year prison term, he said.

With all the relatives of these hapless infants reluctant to accept them, the jail authorities cannot send them outside the prison and have allowed them to stay in the cell with their guardians or mothers.

With permission from the DGP, the jail authorties are meeting the expenses incurred over providing milk and fruits to these children, the official said.

Radha Rani, who is serving an eight-year prison sentence for killing her daughter-in-law said she was innocent and her grand daughter was forced to live with her as none of her relatives took her with them.

Similarly, undertrials Jyoti and Kuljit Kaur, though satisfied with the treatment meted out to them, were worried about the study of their wards in the confines of the prison.

In such cases, authorities send children outside the jail after they attain the age of four years, Gill said, adding any individual or NGO was at liberty to adopt them with the consent of the district magistrate.

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