New Delhi, Dec. 16 -- Rajya Sabha members of the National Conference have urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to initiate time bound steps for the restoration of full statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and to review, on humanitarian grounds, the policy of lodging prisoners from the Union Territory in jails outside the region.

In a joint memorandum submitted on Monday, NC MPs Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan, Gurwinder Singh Oberoi and Sajjad Ahmad Kitchloo said they were placing before the Home Minister their collective concerns on issues of constitutional, democratic and humanitarian importance for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

Raising concern over the continued lodging of prisoners outside the Union Territory, the MPs said thousands of famili...