Chandigarh, June 27, 2019 - Ministry of Home Affairs has agreed to the deployment of CRPF in three high security jails of Punjab . The jails are Amritsar,Ludhiana and Bathinda.
Deployment is seen an crucial step considering repeated incidents of clashes and corruption in state jails particularly after the murder of Mahinder Pal Bittu in Nabha jail. As per the directives requisite expenditure of deployment will be borne by state government.