Hiranagar, Jammu and Kashmir

Hiranagar Holding Centre

Status

In use

2026

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Prisons Department, Jammu & Kashmir (Governmental)

Detains: Accompanied minors, Families, Adult women, Asylum seekers (administrative), Recognized refugees (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Reported population Deaths at facility Conditions complaints?
283

23 October 2025

Yes

25 July 2023

YES

2023

India

6,956

Apprehensions of Non-Citizens

1,000

Detained Asylum Seekers

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FACILITY NAMES
Hiranagar Holding Centre
Location

Country: India

City & Region: Hiranagar, Jammu and Kashmir, Asia-Pacific

Latitude, Longitude: 32.46774, 75.27327

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2026
In use
2024
In use
2023
In use
2021
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2021
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Holding Centre
2021
Management
Management
Type
Year
Prisons Department, Jammu & Kashmir
Governmental
2026
Facility owner
Owner type
Owner name
Year
Government
Government of Jammu & Kashmir
2026
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
2021

DETAINEES

Demographics

Accompanied minors

2025

Families

2025

Adult women

2025

Adult women

2024

Families

2024
Categories of detainees

Recognized refugees (administrative)

2021

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2021

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2021
Countries of Origin

Country #1 Myanmar

2024

SIZE & POPULATION

Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
283
23 October 2025
Number of women detained on single day
Number
Date
84
23 October 2025
Number of children (under 18) detained on single day
Number
Date
60
23 October 2025

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Long-term (more than 20 days)

2023
Overstays

Reported Overstays Not Applicable

2023
Maximum Legal Length of Detention (days)
Days
Year
Unlimited
2022

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2023
2023
Reports of riots or other unrest

Reported riots or other unrest? Yes

2023

CARCERAL INDICATORS

STAFF

Mistreatment Reports

Mistreatment Complaints Yes

2023

SEGREGATION

Family Segregation

Family Segregation Yes

2024

Family Segregation Yes

2023

CELLS

Equipped (beds, tables, shelves, chairs)

Equipped (beds, tables, shelves, chairs) Partially

2021

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

Leisure Equipment

Leisure Equipment Yes

2021
Activities/Education for Children

Activities/Education for Children Yes

2021

HEALTH

Doctor on Duty

Frequency Infrequent

2025
Nurse on Duty

Frequency No Nurse on Duty

2025
Reports of Deaths
Name of deceased individual
Date of death
N.A.
25 July 2023
Reports of Injury/Physical Harm
Injury/physical harm reported
Incident/Report date
Yes
18 July 2023
Covid-19 Measures
Measure
Implementation
Obvs. Date
Vaccinations
Yes
Detainee Release
Partially
Detainee Social Distancing or Isolation
Yes
COVID Testing
Yes
COVID Education
Yes
Use of Masks by Staff
Yes
Distribution of Masks to Detainees
Yes
2021

MONITORING & ACCESS

Family Access

Family Access No

2024

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Access to Telephones

Access to Telephones Yes

2021

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2024

"[N]early 275 Rohingyas remain lodged in Hirangar sub-jail in Kathua district since March 2021. The Hiranagar sub-jail was notified as a holding centre on March 5, 2021, for lodging illegal immigrants as defined under Section 2(b) of the Citizenship Act."


2022

"Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have detained 25 persons of the ethnic Rohingya community in the Gool area of Jammu division’s Ramban district, a day after a prominent human rights group urged the Indian government to protect the refugees. The 25 members, who had arrived in a village as part of the Tableegh-i-Jamaat group – an apolitical Sunni Muslim missionary movement – earlier in March, were sent to a “holding centre” in the Hiranagar area of Jammu, where many Rohingyas are being held currently."