New Delhi: The prison authority Monday told the Delhi High Court that the direction had been forwarded to ensure the safety and security of prisoners who were witnesses in this case regarding the alleged murder of Inmate Ankit Gujjar in Tihar prison and they were submitted in the area.
Under CCTV supervision.
In his status report, Director General Prison told Justice Mukta Gupta that the same setting would be made for witnesses who are currently out with temporary guarantees.
The judge said that remembering the attitude of the authority, there was no further court order called on the petition by five inmates with five prisoners looking for instructions to ensure their safety and to hold the authorities from “threatening / forcing them with a view to prevent them.
Looking for justice to prevent them.
They themselves and dead prisoners “.
The status report said “Two CCTV cameras were installed in their cells (two inmates) and the 24×7 cell recording was monitored by officials every time the inmates were locked from their cells, they were escorted by two special police personnel of Tamil Nadu.
Two CCTV cameras were installed in barracks and one The camera is installed to the gallery (for the third inmates).
“” Like and when (two other inmates) …
give up before the prison authorities, they will be submitted after consideration towards their safety and security, “he added.
“The prison staff on duty has been identified because of maintaining adequate security and security of prisoners and also to keep the watch close to their movements,” more words.
Earlier this month, the court, who had transferred an investigation from Delhi police to the CBI after learning that the person who died “lost his life against custodic violence”, has been looking for status reports from prison authorities in steps taken to ensure safety and security of witnesses Witness.
Gujjar, 29, was found dead in his cell in Tihar Jail in August 4.
The applicant, represented by lawyer Mehmood Pracha, claimed to be an eyewitness to the alleged “brutal murder” Gujjar.
The two applicants, claimed, were colleagues who died and also the victims of the same attack while the other three saw the public beating of the deceased and the incident that led to his death.
“The sequence of events clearly shows the existence of a threat that will occur in the lives of the applicants because of the fact that they are eyewitnesses to terrible and brutal murder in prison with prison officials who have an influential and strong prison, on the orders of the highest stairs authorities,” said the request.
In the order passed on September 8, the court has stated that the post-mortem report from the deceased “denies the version” prison official who is a fight where the two supervisors and Gujjar accepted injury.
Said that it was unexpected that the prison doctor failed to see several injuries to the deceased, the court has argued that the investigation is needed not only on brutally beaten violations but also becomes “the role of the prison doctor does not provide proper treatment at the right time”.
The court has observed that prison dug “failed to pay attention to the relationships / weaknesses” from the Deputy Prison Inspector who did not allow the local police to enter prison to ask PCR calls made about the beating of the deceased at night intervention on August 3-4.
In the petition for transferring investigations from Delhi police, the families of prisoners who died alleged that Gujjar was harassed by prison officials because he “could not meet their money demand regularly” and killed “as part of the conspiracy planned earlier”.
Ankit Gujjar Case: ‘Ensure Witness’ Safety’
