Four prisoners booked as under trial is stripped video posted on FB

This is not the first instance when gangsters updated their Facebook account from jails. This has been happening from long now. The video of gangster Gaurav Sharma, alias Goru Bacha, being assaulted in the Central Jail at Ropar in 2014 and another of notorious gangster Sukha Kahlwan and accomplices mercilessly beating up a jail inmate in Kapurthala jail in 2013, were also circulated on the social media.

Four jail inmates allegedly stripped and thrashed their rival in jail, videographed the incident in mobile phone and uploaded the same on Facebook.

As per the report submitted by the Jail authorities to the Tajpur police post under Ludhiana Police, it is clearly stated that during inquiry, jail inmates were found guilty. Old rivalry is said to be reason behind the incident.

ADGP (Prisons) Rohit Chaudhary has ordered an inquiry and asked DIG (Prisons) Lakhminder Singh Jakhar to fix the responsibility and take action on merit, reported a leading daily from Chandigarh.

The incident was reported  when the victim apprised the jail officials about the same, they searched the barrack of the assailants and confiscated a mobile phone used by them for making the video.  The jail officials claimed that they did not find any such video in the mobile phone and it might be possible that assailants deleted the video. To recover the data, a technical team of the police had been roped in, they said.

On the complaint of inmate Vicky, a case under Sections 323, 506 and 34 IPC has been registered against Munish Kumar and Deepak Ghai, both convicts and undertrials Amandeep Singh and Rajinder Singh, all residents of Haibowal area.

ADGP (Prisons) Rohit Chaudhary  is reported to have told the daily that in preliminary probe, it appeared that the incident did take place and the accused also uploaded the video on the internet. “We have not recovered that video clip which is circulated on the social media. I have ordered an inquiry. It will focus on the security lapses leading to the incidents, the availability of the mobile phone with the inmate and connivance of any jail staff,” he said.

He said the inmate who beat up the victim was a local bully. “He has been shifted to the high-security zone inside the jail where such dangerous criminals are kept,” he said, adding that in the last three months, over 400 mobile phones were recovered from different jails in the state.