{"id":11223,"date":"2012-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/08\/06\/joy-and-heartbreak-in-tihar-raksha-bandhan\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:00:00","slug":"joy-and-heartbreak-in-tihar-raksha-bandhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/08\/06\/joy-and-heartbreak-in-tihar-raksha-bandhan\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy And Heartbreak In Tihar Raksha Bandhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/news\/joy-and-heartbreak-in-tihar-raksha-bandhan\/982996\/0\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2012 (Indian Express):A special enclosure in the courtyard of Tihar Jail was abuzz with a range of emotions as families of nearly 4,500 inmates thronged the prison to celebrate Raksha Bandhan on Thursday. The jail authorities implemented a unique &#8220;advance booking system,&#8221; allowing the prisoners&#8217; relatives to apply a month-and-a-fortnight ago for the visit. &#8220;This reduced last-minute confusion. But women without prior booking were also allowed in,&#8221; Tihar spokesperson Sunil Gupta said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A total of 4,000 male prisoners met their families and friends today. There were around 15,000 visitors. Of the 5,500 female inmates, 125 received visitors,&#8221; he said. This is the only day in a year when inmates are allowed to meet relatives in an open area, instead of the designated room where they have to stand behind a wire mesh, with the visitor on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three persons per family, excluding children, are allowed per inmate. Around 30 inmates are allowed to meet their relatives for 20 minutes at a time. This opportunity comes once a year&#8221;. But the visitors are not allowed to carry anything inside. &#8220;We provide them with rakhis and puja material. We brought 850 packets of sweets from outside, besides 200 packets of petha that the inmates made. Relatives can buy sweets from us,&#8221; Superintendent of Jail No. 6 Shamsher Singh said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2012 (Indian Express):A special enclosure in the courtyard of Tihar Jail was abuzz with,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}