According to the police, the prison authorities are supposed to include nicknames of undertrial prisoners in production programmes, which are sent to the police before inmates are to be transported to and from courts for hearings.
The gang war inside a moving prison van which claimed the lives two inmates took a new twist with Delhi Police and Tihar authorities today trying to pass the buck at each other. Delhi Police claimed the Tihar authorities had not communicated the nicknames of three undertrial prisoners - including Paras Goldy, who was killed in the gang war yesterday - in the three particular production programmes received by them in June. Tihar authorities, however, refuted all allegations.
According to the police, the prison authorities are supposed to include nicknames of undertrial prisoners in production programmes, which are sent to the police before inmates are to be transported to and from courts for hearings. Such information is crucial for ascertaining threat perception by the police unit which is assigned the task of escorting prisoners to and from courts during trials, police claimed.
Tihar authorities, however, maintained that if the prisoner nicknames are mentioned in the warrant, which is forwarded to the jail authorities when an accused is sent to judicial custody, then it is clearly specified in the production programmes.
"If nicknames are not mentioned in warrants, no amendments can be done by the prison authorities on their own," Mukesh Prasad, DIG (Prisons) Tihar, said.
In production programmes received by the police on June 12, June 18 and June 22 had the names of undertrials like Amit Malik alias Bhura, Vikram alias Paras Goldy and Manoj alias Manoj Bakkarwala, with their nicknames not mentioned, said a senior Delhi Police official, referring to a letter mailed to the prison authorities on Wednesday.
"The Third Battalion of Delhi Police - which is responsible for escorting undertrial prisoners from Tihar and Rohini jails to various courts, hospitals and locations outside Delhi - is solely dependant on critical information to be conveyed by the jail authorities, especially for threat perceptions," said Delhi Police spokesperson Rajan Bhagat.
In several cases, full names, nicknames and/or father's names of undertrial prisoners were not mentioned, which forced Delhi Police to upgrade their arrangement, Bhagat added. In the letter sent to Tihar on August 26, Delhi Police requested that necessary direction be given to the staff concerned to mention nicknames, category and if the prisoner is an escapee, while sendig the production programme to the battalion, the senior official claimed.
Reacting to that, Tihar (DIG) Mukesh Prasad claimed that the production programme pertaining to Goldy had the fact mentioned that he was an escapee. He added that there has been no violation of rules on part of the prison authorities.
Yesterday, two prisoners - Goldy (30) and Pradeep Bhola (32) - were allegedly beaten to death inside a moving prison van, in an attack led by jailed gangster Neeraj Bawana, who was one of the inmates present in the vehicle, accompanied by his cousins Naveen Bhanja, Naveen Bali and Rahul.
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