TN to release 700 life convicts on Sept 15

TN to release 700 life convicts on Sept 15

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.09.2021

The state government has decided to release 700 life convicts on September 15 to mark the birth anniversary of former chief minister C N Annadurai.

Making the announcement in the state assembly, chief minister M K Stalin said the convicts, who have been serving sentences for many years, were being released on humanitarian grounds.

Meanwhile, Stalin on Monday said the government would set up a new police commission to find out the demands and needs of police personnel. “A police commission will be constituted again to recommend ways to strengthen the relationship between police and public, to initiate some essential schemes and roll out new training programmes for police personnel,” the chief minister said, while replying to the demand on grants for the home department.

The Madras high court had recently directed the government to reconstitute the commission set up by the AIADMK regime in 2019, headed by retired bureaucrat Sheela Priya, with a retired judge of the high court as head and a social worker, a public representative, retired and serving police officials and civil servants as members.