Two Tihar Jail warders suspended

May 18, 2010, Tuesday, Staff Reporter, The Hindu

For involvement in death of inmate

NEW DELHI: The Tihar Central Jail authorities here on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that the Head Warder and the Warder allegedly involved in the beating of an inmate along with two convicts leading to his death had been suspended.

In a status report submitted to a Division Bench comprising Justice Madan B. Lokur and Mukta Gupta the, jail authorities said the two inmates had been shifted to a “high risk” prison. It further said that about two 200 CCTV cameras would be installed in the jail premises to prevent recurrence of the incident.

At the last hearing, the inquest report on the death of a Tihar jail inmate said the Head Warder and the Warder of the ward concerned along with the two inmates were involved in beating up the victim. The report said the inmate, Sundar, was beaten with a “blunt object”. The report prepared by a metropolitan magistrate after talking to the inmates of the ward further said the victim died of a heart attack and it was not a natural death.

Sundar had died in a quarrel between him and two other inmates in the jail complex in February this year.

The Court has converted a letter written to the Union Law Minister, Veerappa Moily, by a brother of the victim regarding the incident into a petition. The brother of the victim had written the letter to the Minister when the jail authorities took no action on his complaint about the death of his brother in the quarrel. The Minister had sent the letter to Justice Lokur, the Acting Chief Justice. The Hari Nagar police in West Delhi are investigating the murder charge against the four accused.

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