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In the days of the Shikarpur Collectorate there were two principal jails, one at Shikarpur, the other in the island fort of Bakhar. This was known as the district jail but was subsidiary to that at Shikarpur. Bakhar Jail was established in 1865 and had an area of about 5,613 square yards. It consisted of two barracks, formerly tenanted by European soldiers, which could accommodate three hundred and twenty inmates. Many of the inmates were put to manufacturing articles for sale, such as cloth, towels, napkins, reed chairs, sofas, carpets, baskets, shoes, etc. The establishment employed in the Bakhar jail was not an imperial charge; its cost was debited to the Jail Local Fund.

Bakhar was closed on 1 January 1876; a subordinate jail was established in Sukkur in 1904 at an estimated cost of Rs 274,843. Almost 550 prisoners can be accommodated in this jail. However, Jail's present strength of prisoners is in thousands instead hundreds.

(Documented on June 3, 2013)

[Source: Sukkur: Nostalgia of things past by Momin Bullo | Coordinates: EFT]

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