Mentally ill prisoner unable to return home for 5 years post-bail due to wrong address | Bhubaneswar News
Sambalpur: A 34-year-old undertrial prisoner has been unable to return home for the last five years after his release on bail from Sambalpur Central Jail, as he does not remember the address.
The district court recently granted bail again. However, jail officials could not send him home because of a wrong address. Jail staff in a press note said he has been shifted to a shelter for mentally ill people in Sambalpur with the effort of Dhanupali police.
According to jail officers, the inmate identified as Jabira Sattar, son of Muhammad Rehman, is from Jharkhand. However, the address mentioned in the chargesheet copy in 2019 is not correct, for which two teams of jail officials visited Jharkhand and the village of Aghora under Sonua police station in Ranchi district.
The inmate had never created any problem and was on very good behaviour. But neither the other inmates nor the prison staff could understand what he said. He was released from jail after only five years of his term; however, as nobody from his family came to receive him, he stayed there. On Dec 13, the district court granted bail, as he is a psychiatric patient and he was taken to the shelter by the district administration. The next day he was handed over to Dhanupali police to find his home address and send him back. As his address is wrong, police and jail officers visited the place mentioned and verified with the police stations concerned. As the address is wrong, they could not locate his home.
In the end he was shifted to the shelter for in an ambulance.
Santosh Barik, jailer of the central jail, told TOI, “It is a process to release an inmate whose family members come to receive him, with the issue of a release order. As he is a psychiatric patient, it is not proper to release him on bail. Hence with the help of police and district administration he was sent to the shelter. His family can take him from there.”
Inspector of Dhanupali police station, Subrat Panigrahi, said “The inmate was granted bail in the same month he was jailed in a drugs case in 2019. He was charged as per FIR when he was able to tell the address; however, the address is wrong. Our team, along with jail officers, had visited Jharkhand to find his home. Now he is there in a shelter for mentally ill people.”
Jail officers said that currently 636 inmates are staying in the central jail, which was established in 1885.
The district court recently granted bail again. However, jail officials could not send him home because of a wrong address. Jail staff in a press note said he has been shifted to a shelter for mentally ill people in Sambalpur with the effort of Dhanupali police.
According to jail officers, the inmate identified as Jabira Sattar, son of Muhammad Rehman, is from Jharkhand. However, the address mentioned in the chargesheet copy in 2019 is not correct, for which two teams of jail officials visited Jharkhand and the village of Aghora under Sonua police station in Ranchi district.
The inmate had never created any problem and was on very good behaviour. But neither the other inmates nor the prison staff could understand what he said. He was released from jail after only five years of his term; however, as nobody from his family came to receive him, he stayed there. On Dec 13, the district court granted bail, as he is a psychiatric patient and he was taken to the shelter by the district administration. The next day he was handed over to Dhanupali police to find his home address and send him back. As his address is wrong, police and jail officers visited the place mentioned and verified with the police stations concerned. As the address is wrong, they could not locate his home.
In the end he was shifted to the shelter for in an ambulance.
Santosh Barik, jailer of the central jail, told TOI, “It is a process to release an inmate whose family members come to receive him, with the issue of a release order. As he is a psychiatric patient, it is not proper to release him on bail. Hence with the help of police and district administration he was sent to the shelter. His family can take him from there.”
Inspector of Dhanupali police station, Subrat Panigrahi, said “The inmate was granted bail in the same month he was jailed in a drugs case in 2019. He was charged as per FIR when he was able to tell the address; however, the address is wrong. Our team, along with jail officers, had visited Jharkhand to find his home. Now he is there in a shelter for mentally ill people.”
Jail officers said that currently 636 inmates are staying in the central jail, which was established in 1885.
