The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently advised all the states and the Union Territories (UTs) against the practice of "segregating prisoners and assigning tasks based on their caste",
Inmates in UP prisons will recite the Hanuman Chalisa and Sundarkand as a part of the program, besides being guided in additional developmental skills.
Politics have heated up in Tamil Nadu over the demand to release Muslim prisoners from jail, including those convicted in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast