India, June 15 -- The state home department, still looking for suitable land for its third jail in the city, has asked the urban development department to reserve the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)'s Deonar telecom factory land for a prison.

A few years ago, the revenue department had sanctioned 2.05 hectares of land at Mandale village in Turbhe, where a vertical jail is due to come up. The prisons department wanted a five-hectare plot, but a huge chunk of this was taken by MMRDA for a metro car shed. The jails department feels that what is left of the land is insufficient and is hence demanding the land where the Deonar telecom factory, which once manufactured telephones, cables and other equipment, stood.

Speaking to Hindustan Ti...