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Raksha Bandhan in Tihar jail

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The festival of Raksha Bandhan was celebrated with traditional fervour on Wednesday at Tihar Central Jail complex and Rohini district jail with female inmates being allowed to meet their brothers to tie rakhis and other inmates being allowed to meet their sisters who visited them in jail.

Tihar public relations officer Sunil Kumar said a total of 12,000 visitors came to Tihar and Rohini jails to meet and tie rakhis to 4,500 inmates lodged in various jails. Also, 33 prison inmates, who were in judicial custody along with their sisters, were allowed to visit the women's jail to get rakhis tied by their sisters. Further, 350 brothers visited their incarcerated sisters in the female prisons for getting rakhis tied on their hands. Some male as well as female prison inmates also pledged to their siblings that they would not commit crime any more.

The administration had made provisions for sweets and rakhis at reasonable rates within the jail premises.

The meetings were allowed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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