Magistrate not shown barrack where Shetye was kept
This visit was to hear the grievances of the prisoners at a personal level and accordingly make a report of the same
On the day that Byculla prison inmate Manjula Shetye died after she was allegedly assaulted by prison staff, Magistrate Jyoti Pokhale had visited the prison on a routine, but mandatory procedure, according to the orders passed by the metropolitan magistrate court.
This visit was to hear the grievances of the prisoners at a personal level and accordingly make a report of the same. A charge sheet, filed by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch in the Shetye murder case, reveals that Manisha Pokharkar, a jailor who has since been arrested for Shetye's murder, purposely did not take the magistrate to the barrack where Shetye was kept after she was assaulted.