New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday once again spoken against keeping undertrials in jail, hours after a Delhi court rejected the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi and seven other accused in the 2G case.
"I visited Ghazipur Jail to visit Congress workers framed in cases by UP Police. (There were) interesting statistics about convicts and undertrials. Jail capacity 397, prisoners 621, convicts 70, undertrials 551. Once again I prove my point. Undertrials unnecessarily being denied bail," Singh said in his two posts on the microblogging site Twitter.
Singh's tweets came on a day a city court dismissed bail pleas of Kanimozhi and other 2G accused despite the CBI not objecting to the bail pleas of the DMK MP and four others.
This is the second time in a week that the AICC general secretary has flagged the issue of bail denial to undertrials.
On October 28 also Singh had made a strong pitch for release on bail of all accused who had been chargesheeted after completion of probe.
He had then cited the case of former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta in the US, who was given bail after being arrested in the US on charges of passing insider information to one of his billionaire friends.
"Good to know Rajat Gupta got bail. Would our Judiciary also take a cue and not keep undertrials in lock up once they are charge sheeted," Singh had tweeted.
Singh's assertion had come in the backdrop of former Telecom Minister A Raja, Kanimozhi and Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi languishing behind bars in corruption cases like 2G and Commonwealth Games, but the AICC general secretary stressed he was not taking any names.
Congress, had, however, refrained from endorsing his views saying it did not feel the need to comment on the remarks of "others" and that Singh can best explain his statements.
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