A state-level committee, comprising the Madhya Pradesh high court Chief Justice, principal secretary and DG-jails, met after Supreme Court ordered all states and Union Territories to set up high-level panels to consider releasing on parole convicts who have been jailed for up to seven years so to decongest jails in the fight against Covid-19.Around 12,000 prisoners could be released on parole to decongest jails in Madhya Pradesh in an attempt to contain the Covid-19 outbreak. As many 5,000 inmates could walk out by Monday and the rest within a week, reports times of India newspaper.