An uncanny problem has arised in awarding the death penalty to Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and four others convicted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar twin blasts - neither Telangana nor Andhra Pradesh have any gallows or hangmen left to execute them.
Telangana Inspector General of Prisons said that none of the jails had necessary facilities for hanging prisoners as they hadn't come such cases for a very long time. And although Telangana prison had been modernised, gallows were absent in all of them.
As per reports, one the Secunderabad Central Jail in Musheerabad constructed during the British regime had gallows, but was later demolished along with other prisons in 2003 to make space for the Gandhi Hospital. The jail was then shifted to Cherlapalli on the city outskirts, where the terrorists are currently accommodated.
Before the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the only prisons to have such a facility was the Rajahmundry and Visakhapatnam central jails. The last hanging in Andhra Pradesh supposedly took place at Rajahmundry jail in February 1976.
Officials are expected to to construct makeshift gallows to hang Bhatkal and the others now that their sentencing was confirmed.
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