The Agra Central Jail authorities have refused to provide any details sought under an RTI about detainees shifted from J&K and detained in the jail after the BJP government abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories in the floor of the parliament on August 5.

“Under the RTI Act, the prison authorities in Uttar Pradesh have refused to provide any details of individuals shifted from J&K to Agra Central Prison around the time when fundamental changes were made to the status of J&K under India's Constitution,” an RTI applicant associated with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an international non-governmental organization working in the area of human rights, declared on its official website.

The RTI was filed by Venkatesh Nayak of CHRI after he read several reports about the detention of many J&K residents shifted to prisons in Uttar Pradesh (UP). One such news report on August 26, according to Nayak, mentioned more than a hundred persons from J&K being detained in four jails of UP.