A minor scuffle between undertrial prisoners turned into a violent clash at Pune’s Yerwada Central Jail resulting in injuries to an inmate. The police arrested two prisoners on the charge of physical abuse.
The incident took place on November 14th at 3.30 pm in a barrack of the high security prison. Sudhir Gautam Thorat is among the injured, the police said. The identity of the two prisoners who were arrested on the charge of assault are Vivek Rajesh Khare alias Vicky and Ali Adam Shaikh. Jail guard Biswas Wakde has registered the first information in this case.
A preliminary investigation by Yerwada police station officials revealed that Kharade and Shaikh asked Thorat when he would be released from jail. There was a heated argument between the prisoners over a minor incident. Kharade and Sheikh started beating Thorat. Thorat’s chest, ribs and nose were injured in the attack. Jail guards on duty responded and stopped the fight. Thorat was taken to the prison hospital for treatment.
An investigation was initiated by Yerwada police station officials who registered a case against Kharade and Shaikh on charges of physical abuse.
In June this year, an undertrial prisoner in Yerwada prison was attacked by three undertrial prisoners whom he suspected of passing information about them to rival gang members outside the prison. In February, at least a dozen undertrial inmates at the jail attacked a jailer on duty, breaking his face and an arm. In December last year, an undertrial prisoner in the jail was killed by a group of four other inmates who fatally attacked him with scissors and a piece of metal. Officials said the attack was a result of past hostilities.
At the beginning of this year, a CCTV network with 812 cameras was put into operation inside the prison.
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