They have all been jailed in the February 2012 Park Street gang rape case, but Nasir Khan, Ruman Khan and Sumit Bajaj are apparently posting regular Facebook updates straight from their prison cells in West Bengal.

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The profiles of the accused seem to suggest that they often chat and comment on pictures and are very much active on social media, with the jail authorities predictably having turned a blind eye.

This is not the first time that the jailed trio have taken to the social networking site Facebook while in judicial custody. In 2014, the prison authorities had carried out a raid and seized phones from the possession of these three undertrials. Soon, the department shifted these inmates to another jail as a punishment. But, it seems like the punishment has not acted as a deterrent. 

Ruman's profile shows updated Facebook cover pictures twice on March 19 and received 18 likes within a few hours of uploading the picture.

Nasir seems to have updated his profile picture and cover picture last on December 2014 and it looks like Sumit wished his Facebook friends ‘Happy Republic Day’ on January 26, 2015. Sumit's page even has a picture of him sitting next to the bars of his prison cell in 2013!

Out of the three, Ruman seems to be the most active on Facebook, with several pictures of him showing off his body, presumably clicked inside the prison cell.

When the ADG Jail, Adhir Sharma was contacted he said, “We are not aware of any inmate using Facebook inside the jail. In three central jails – Dum Dum, Alipore and Presidency, we have installed jammers and it is near completion to curb such activities,” said Sharma.

According to prison statistics, as many as 146 cell phones and SIM cards were seized from Presidency jail inmates, 48 from Alipore jail inmates and 140 from Dum Dum jail over the period of January-June 2014.

The Park Street rape survivor, Suzette Jordan, died of meningoencephalitis in a hospital in Kolkata on 13 March this year. In the early hours of February 6, 2012, she was raped at gunpoint in a moving car by five men. While Indian laws forbid the disclosure of a rape victim's identity, Jordan had chosen to not hide her name and had come out strongly against her aggressors. However, more than three years later, her rapists are still to be convicted and sentenced.

Note: The pictures are from the Facebook Pages of the accused. DNA has obscured their faces, since they remain to be convicted in the case.