{"id":331616,"date":"2021-04-15T04:51:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331616"},"modified":"2021-04-15T04:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:21:18","slug":"3468-tihar-inmates-who-were-on-covid-parole-go-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/3468-tihar-inmates-who-were-on-covid-parole-go-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"3,468 Tihar inmates, who were on Covid parole, go \u2018missing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jail authorities are looking for more than 3,400 Tihar Jail prisoners, who were part of the 6,740 inmates released on parole last year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
\nJail authorities are seeking Delhi Police\u2019s help trace the \u00a03,468 prisoners who have gone \u201cmissing\u201d, reports have pointed.
\nAt the time of release, most of these convicts and undertrial prisoners were suffering from serious illness such as tuberculosis, HIV, cancer, kidney disease, Hepatitis B or C, asthma, etc.
\nThe aim of the inmates\u2019 release was to decongest the prison and curtail the surge in Covid cases, reports pointed out. Tihar, with a cumulative capacity of holding 10,026 inmates, is one of the largest prison complexes in South Asia, they added.
\nThese prisoners were initially released for only eight weeks. However, the deadlines kept on extending from time to time. They were finally supposed to surrender between February 7 and March 6.
\nWhen approached by prison officials, the prisoners were not present at their homes. And their families said that they were unaware of their whereabouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jail authorities are looking for more than 3,400 Tihar Jail prisoners, who were part of the 6,740 inmates released on parole last year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Jail authorities are seeking Delhi Police\u2019s help trace the \u00a03,468 prisoners who have gone \u201cmissing\u201d, reports have pointed. At the time of release, most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36],"tags":[14108,14107,6477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331619,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331616\/revisions\/331619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}