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November 04, 2008
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Tuesday
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Ziqa'ad 5, 1429
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Probe ordered into ‘prisoners pulling plough’
LUCKNOW, Nov 3: An Indian state government has ordered an inquiry into a report that prison inmates were forced to pull a field plough, an official said on Monday.
The footage aired by Sahara Times television last week showed about a dozen prisoners pulling a plough inside the prison grounds in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi. It also showed a policeman smoking a cigarette in the background. Prison authorities denied the report.
“Why would we force jail inmates to plough the field? We have our own tractors and use them for agricultural purposes,” Ajay Upadhaya, a prison official, said on Monday.—AP
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