Jail Code doesn't provide phone facility to prisoners

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Deputy Inspector General-DIG (Prisons) of Police Shamsul Haider Siddiqui has dismissed the demand for telephone facility to Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina who is now in prison.
The DIG (Prisons) told journalists at the Dhaka Central Jail gate Monday that the jail code did not permit land or mobile telephone facility to the prisoners, reports UNB.
Hasina's counsel Toufiq Newaz, earlier, claiming telephone facility to his client said section 682 of Jail Code allows it to the division prisoners.
The DIG quoted section 682 of jail code as: "All reasonable facilities at proper time and under proper restriction for interview or otherwise communicating either orally or in writing with their relative, friend and legal adviser."
"Oral communication does not mean telephone facility", the DIG said.
"Oral communication can be through meetings."
Haider informed that Sheikh Hasina had also personally requested him to provide her telephone facility in the jail.
He told her that the rule did not permit it.