Indrani Mukerjea's lawyer filed an application stating that she has been assaulted by Byculla jail authorities.
Special CBI court on Tuesday ordered Indrani Mukerjea to be present in court on Wednesday.
The 44-year-old former media executive was on Monday accused of instigating inmates of a women's jail in Mumbai for rioting after the death of a convict. The prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, was among nearly 200 inmates of the Byculla Jail booked by Nagpada police for rioting and other offences after they staged a protest over the death of a convict, Manju Govind Shette.
In the same case, Mukerjea's lawyer filed an application stating that she has been assaulted by jail authorities, and that bruise marks can be seen on her body, after being beaten.
Shette (45) died at the government-run JJ Hospital on Friday night after allegedly being beaten up by a woman official of the jail.
The next day, enraged women inmates rose in protest, some of them went up to the prison's roof, while others made a bonfire of newspapers and documents inside the premises to express their anger, a police official said. The inmates alleged that Shette was mercilessly beaten up by the woman prison official which led to her death.
Indrani "instigated" the inmates by asking them to shun food and "use their children as shields" when prison staffers tried to stop them from agitating and gathering without permission, the department official said. During the investigation, it was found that she played an "active" role in the protest staged by the women inmates, he said.
Indrani, lodged in the prison after her arrest in August 2015, and the other inmates were booked for rioting, unlawful assembly, assault on public servant and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, a police official said. The jail houses around 251 inmates.
Indrani, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and ex-driver Shyamvar Rai, are accused of killing 24-year-old Sheena Indrani's daughter from a previous relationship - on April 24, 2012.
(With PTI inputs)
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