Give adequate protection to co-accused of deceased Inmate in Jail, High Court tells Prison Authorities

 
  

On Thursday, the High Court of Delhi asked the prison authorities here to provide adequate security in judicial custody to the co-accused of undertrial Ankit Gujjar who was found dead inside the jail premises in 2021.

Justice Anu Malhotra also asked Delhi Police to provide adequate security to the wife of the petitioner co-accused & directed that subject to the orders of the chief justice, their petition, which sought directions to restrain the jail officials from "threatening/ coercing/ injuring/extorting" them, be placed on March 4 before the judge dealing with the case concerning the custodial death of Gujjar.

Lawyer Mehmood Pracha, appearing for the petitioners, alleged that the petitioner-inmate is facing extortion at the hands of certain jail officials who are threatening him with a similar fate as Ankit Gujjar.

Gujjar, 29, was found dead inside his cell in Tihar jail on Aug 4, 2021.

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