Timergara jail found overcrowded

TIMERGARA: Lower Dir Deputy Commissioner Sarmad Saleem Akram on Friday paid a surprise visit to the district jail in Timergara and inspected barracks. Assistant Commissioner Ashfaq Ahmad Tarani also accompanied him. The officials met prisoners and checked the quality and standard of meal and water being served to the inmates. The visiting team was informed that the jail was overcrowded as it had more than 600 prisoners, against the sanctioned capacity of 250. The deputy commissioner set free two prisoners involved in petty crimes. Some of the inmates complained about delay in their court hearings. The official promised to provide the jail a hospital with adequate medicines and directed the local administration to supply blankets, quilts, mats and sports equipment to the jail.