Telephones to Serve Prison, Inmates Thank High Court

A prison inmate at one of the world’s largest prison complexes, looks set to bring about a minor telecom revolution at Delhi’s Tihar jail.

Ravikant Sharma, a prison inmate at one of the world’s largest prison complexes, looks set to bring about a minor telecom revolution at Delhi’s Tihar jail. His petition to the Delhi High Court for installing a telephone facility in Tihar jail is being considered by the Delhi government. Available only to foreign nationals till now, the facility is eagerly awaited by the 11,000 inmates of Tihar jail. “We are supporting the petitioner’s request. We are looking into it,” says a Tihar jail spokesperson. Last week, the Delhi government sought three weeks’ time from Delhi High Court to file a report on the matter. Setting up a system that will record and monitor calls made by inmates seems to be one of the concerns in setting up the facility. Tihar receives about 3,000 visitors everyday. Introducing the telephone is expected to ease this visitor traffic. This has been a good year for technology-enabled perks at the prison. About four months ago, Tata Sky become available on the 1,000-odd television sets in the prison. Wonder what Tihar makes of Bigg Boss.

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