{"id":16736,"date":"2026-04-10T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:52:13","slug":"jks-high-security-prison-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/jks-high-security-prison-is-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K\u2019s high-security prison is ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Home Dept issues formal notification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Srinagar, Apr 09: The much-talked-about high-security prison in Jammu &amp; Kashmir is now ready, with the Home Department officially notifying it as a prison.<\/p>\n<p>As per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Union Territory\u2019s Home Department has issued a notification declaring it both a prison and a designated high-security jail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn pursuance of sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Prisons Act, 1894, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir hereby declares the structures erected on the land measuring 148 kanals, bearing Khasra No. 427 min &amp; 486 min at village Dambra, Tehsil Mahanpur, District Kathua, as a prison, and also designates the said prison as \u2018High Security Prison, Mahanpur,\u2019\u201d reads the notification issued by Principal Secretary Home, Chandraker Bharti.<\/p>\n<p>The notification has been issued on the orders of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.<\/p>\n<p>On July 07, 2024, the Administrative Council headed by the LG created 342 posts for the prison.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctioned staff includes one post each of Senior Superintendent Jail, Superintendent Jail, Deputy Superintendent Jail, and three Assistant Superintendents of Jail.<\/p>\n<p>With this addition, the number of prisons under the Jammu &amp; Kashmir Government has risen to 15, which includes two central jails, 10 district jails, one special jail, and one sub-jail.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth mentioning that Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited the site of the prison in 2022. After reviewing the blueprint, the Home Minister suggested certain changes. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Dept issues formal notification Srinagar, Apr 09: The much-talked-about high-security prison in Jammu &amp; Kashmir is now ready, with the Home Department officially notifying it as a prison. As per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the Union Territory\u2019s Home Department has issued a notification declaring it both a prison and a designated high-security jail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","category-kt-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}