New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the prison authority here to provide adequate security in prisoners to jointly accuse Ankit Gujjar who was found dead in prison last year.
Justice Anu Malhotra also asked Delhi police to provide adequate security to the wives of the applicants who were accused and directed that subject to the command of the chairman of justice, their petition, who was looking for directions to hold prison officials from “threatening / injuring / wounding / squeezing them, Placed on March 4 before the judge deal with the case of the death of the Gujjar Custodian.
Lawyer Mehmood Pracha, appeared for the applicant, allegating that the applicants faced extortion in the hands of certain prison officials who threatened him with a similar fate like Ankit Gujjar.
Gujjar, 29, was found dead in his cell in Tihar Jail on August 4 last year.
Death inmates: ‘Give Protection to be accused of being together’
