Staff Correspondent

Dhaka Central Jail authorities today binned a newspaper report claiming three of their high-profile detainees were being served food supplied from their home, calling it "entirely baseless and untrue".

"On March 4, 2025 a mass circulation newspaper published a report headlined 'Salman, Anisul, Shahjahan eat food delivered from their home' which is entirely baseless and untrue," the senior supper's office of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj said in a statement.

Signed by senior jail super Suraiya Akhtar, the statement said publication of such reports without any specific evidence questions the positive activities of prisons and misleads peoples mind alongside affecting the work spirit and morale of jail officials and employees.

"Moreover, such (misleading) reports create a negative attitude among relatives of prison inmates and develop a mistrust in peoples mind," it read.

According to the statement, since July 2024 the Keraniganj Jail, the country's biggest correction facility, has been running its daily activities with more transparency and accountability in line with prison laws, prison rules and circulars issued by the prison directorate from time to time.

It said the routine services were being operated with extra cautions and vigil in line with the law.

The statement said extra caution was being maintained for inmates' meetings with visitors, their talks to outside people through mobile phone booths, providing them medical treatments, commodity sales in jail canteen, deposit of money in inmates PCs, food quality and searches to prevent access of illegal goods inside the jail.

"In the changed existing scenario, the Dhaka Central Jail, Keraniganj, is being run with more transparency and accountability than any time in the past. The publication of reports with specific information and data could help the facility to ensure its (services) continuity with dynamism," it said.