This reporter is in possession of the list of children inside Koraput District Jail. The children are away from their parents and home in their villages. Senior Advocate Nihar Ranjan Patnaik condemned the brutal attack on children and said the confinement of the children in jail with criminals is nothing but criminalising the children.

Moving with bows and arrows to protect themselves from animals and shooting birds is the hobby of tribal boys. The fact is known to one and all including the police who have taken them into custody like criminals and were assaulted brutally.

The children do not know the language (Odia) which the jail authorities speak and also do not know why they are inside the jail and how long they will have to remain away from their parents.

They are wondering who are responsible for them being in jail. The food which the tribal children are getting from the jail authorities is quite insufficient. The dal is boiled water with little pulses and turmeric powder, said one of the advocates  Balakrishna, who is also an Executive Body Member of the Committee for the release of Political Prisoners.

The children who do not know the meaning of crime, jail, lawyers are being forced to live with criminals inside the jail.

The tribal children in fact are the children of the nature and live in villages inside the forest, but unfortunately they are being forced to live in uncomfortable, unacceptable conditions inside the jail and have to face number of criminal cases which includes waging of war against the democratically elected government looting, attempt to murder, murder, attempt to snatch arms and other criminal cases.

The Sub-divisional police officer Jagannath Rao who spoke to the team of the Senior Citizens' Fact Finding Team to Narayanapatna said "the juveniles had been arrested because they were armed and taking part in criminal activities and that there was a list of cases filed against the juveniles arrested".