Telangana News

Central prisons, in every state, including AP, have gallows, except Telangana, where not even a single gallow is present in any of the jails. 

Regarding this, TS prisons chief V.K Singh said officials had submitted a proposal to set up gallows at the Warangal and Chanchalguda prisons and the proposal is awaiting its approval. 

Speaking about the reasons of why there are no gallows in Telangana, one of the senior officials said, "It’s not a rule but there is a norm which requires gallows in each state. Perhaps, it’s because the last death sentence carried out here was before 1978. It may be also be because it is a new state and authorities concerned  may have not paid attention to facilities until they were required to do so.

According to the sources, the decision to add or remove gallows, is in the hands of state’s home ministry. After Telangana formation, its Home Ministry had never looked into such a problem, until the proposal was sent by the prisons department.

If all higher courts uphold Monday's Dilsukhnagar verdict, and of the President of India approves it, it is very likely that the five terrorists will be hanged in Telangana state, officials said.