HAFIZ Tehsin Ahmed thanks Punjab Government

Ludhiana, July 8, 2013: Hafiz Tehsin Ahmed, Member of Minorities Commission, has thanked to the Punjab Government for agreeing to relax certain norms for the Muslim convicts and undertrials, lodged in the jails across the state, during the month of Ramzan, starting from July 10.
Speaking to the media persons at Circuit House here today, he added he would be visiting jails in Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Amritsar, Malerkotla, Sangrur, Nabha, Patiala, Bathinda and Ferozpur in the next three days. He revealed that nearly 566 Muslim convicts and undertrials were lodged in these jails.
Further, he told that they had recently met the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, requesting that Muslim convicts must be kept together during the month of Ramzan. The delegation had also urged that the Muslim inmates must not be given hard work to perform as majority of them kept the fasts for about one month.
Meanwhile, it is mentioned here that Hafiz Tehsin Ahmed also visited the local Central Jail and assured the Muslim inmates that they would be taken care of by the authorities during the month of Ramzan.
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