Says other prisoners may also demand same facility.
The city sessions court on Friday rejected an application by suspended DySP NK Amin, seeking access to a computer inside Sabarmati jail. While rejecting the appeal, additional principal sessions judge PB
Desai acknowledged security concerns inside the jail in the light of cellphones being found in the possession of prisoners at regular intervals.
"Lot of activities, which are undesirable and against national interests, are alleged to have taken place from within the jail premises," the court observed. The court rejected the application submitted by Amin on the grounds that it was important to consider that every detenue, undertrial or convict would have similar rights and there can't be "selective discrimination", among such detenues.
The court also observed, "If the applicant is permitted access to his personal computer then the same facility will have to be given to other detenues, undertrials or convicts seeking similar facilities of which there may be hard-core terrorists and anti-national elements and it would be, in my opinion, ridiculous and completely improper to even consider a possibility of providing personal computers to such detenues."
Amin, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, had moved court after he was denied permission by Sabarmati jail authorities to have a computer in his cell. Later, the court sent a notice to jail authorities to file a reply in the matter after which jail superintendent V Chandrashekhar filed an affidavit saying that computers cannot be provided to undertrials and that there was no provision in the jail manual to do so.
He had expressed his doubts that Amin might access internet by using a USB port if he was given a computer.
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