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A State-level lasting committee has identified 102 beingness convicts lodged successful prisons crossed Telangana arsenic eligible for premature merchandise aft examining their cases successful accordance with authorities guidelines.
Officials noted that the State authorities had earlier issued orders successful July 2024 for the aboriginal merchandise of 213 beingness convicts aft a spread of 4 years. Of them, 178 were men and 35 were women. As portion of rehabilitation measures, 73 released convicts were provided employment astatine substance outlets tally by the Prisons Department, portion 8 women were fixed sewing machines. Others person taken up agriculture and antithetic occupations successful their autochthonal villages.
The committee, comprising Special Chief Secretary to the Home Department C. V. Anand, Law Department Secretary B. Papi Reddy and Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services Soumya Mishra, met connected March 12 to reappraisal the proposals submitted by the Prisons Department.
During the meeting, the committee examined the cases of beingness convicts individually and identified 102 prisoners, including 96 men and six women, arsenic eligible for premature merchandise arsenic per Government Orders issued connected October 27, 2025.
Officials said the process began with jailhouse superintendents identifying eligible prisoners based connected the criteria laid down by the State government, the Government of India and the guidelines of the Supreme Court. The database was prepared with assistance from the District Legal Services Authorities and supported by required records and remarks from territory probation officers.
The proposals were subsequently verified by elder officials of the Prisons Department earlier being forwarded to the authorities for scrutiny by the lasting committee.
The recommendations volition present beryllium placed earlier the State Cabinet for consideration. Following a determination by the Cabinet, the database volition beryllium sent to the Governor for approval, aft which orders volition beryllium issued for the premature merchandise of inmates.
