{"id":27926,"date":"2017-03-04T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=27926"},"modified":"2017-03-04T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T10:21:37","slug":"english-plastic-cutlery-to-replace-metal-utensils-in-city-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=27926","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Plastic cutlery to replace metal utensils in city prisons<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->MUMBAI: The city prison authorities have decided to replace the existing steel\/aluminium spoons and plates with plastic ones, so that inmates do not have access to anything that can be improvised and used as weapons. The decision comes a day after an undertrial rape accused lodged at Thane central jail attacked a prison official and a constable with a sharp-edged bowl.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last5brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last4brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>Jail officials have already earmarked Rs 18 lakh to replace the metal cutlery with plastic. &#8220;We have already awarded the tender for plastic plates and spoons and will soon start distributing them in various jails,&#8221; said a jail officer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"last3brdiv\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"last2brdiv\"><\/div>\n<p>The state prison department is divided into four regions-east, west, south and north. South region-Mumbai falls in thi regions-sees the maximum cases of undertrials and convicts sharpening utensils and using them as weapons. In December 2006, John D&#8217;Souza, a member of the Katta Shekhar gang and suspected to be involved in 25-30 robberies, was stabbed to death by rivals inside Arthur Road jail. On January 24, 2008, D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s associates used aluminium plates that were converted into knives by sharpening them to stab Asgar Ali Mehandi, the prime accused in D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s murder, to death on the jail premises.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The city prison authorities have decided to replace the existing steel\/aluminium spoons and plates with plastic ones, so that inmates do not have access to anything that can be improvised and used as weapons. The decision comes a day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27927,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27926\/revisions\/27927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27926"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=27926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}