Nagpur: A mother has approached the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court seeking a judicial inquiry by a retired High Court judge into the alleged brutal attack on her son inside the Central Jail here.
The 57-year-old petitioner prayed for proper treatment of his 33-year-old son, who is admitted to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) after being seriously injured. An undertrial son is behind bars since 2013 after being arrested under MCOCA. He was also charged with escaping prison in 2015, and sentenced to two years in prison after voluntarily surrendering.
A division bench of Justice Vinay Deshpande and Justice Amir Borkar issued notices to the respondents, including the jail superintendent, asking them to file their replies within two weeks. Additional Chief Secretary of Home Department, Inspector General of Prisons and Correctional Services in Pune, Inspector Dhantoli Police Station and Dean of GMCH are the other respondents.
Petitioner Seema Firdous Salim Khan, through advocate Nihalsinh Rathod, argued that the authorities had informed the police about the attack on her son Shoaib by the jail authorities, but no action was taken, forcing him to approach the judiciary. .
The Manewada resident came to know about her son’s plight when she had gone to jail to meet him last month. He came to know about his admission in GMCH from the guards.
When she went to GMCH, she was shocked to see her son in the ICU and in a precarious condition. He was bleeding from his left leg and had a deep wound from a broken bone. He also had a deep wound on his forehead and other injury marks on his body.
Shoaib, who was moaning in pain and could hardly speak, told him that an officer and his subordinate staff hit him on the head with a wooden chair and attacked him with clubs to seize the drug. After the attack, from which he was bleeding from his injuries, he was locked in his cell without any help or treatment. It was only after other prisoners made a noise, fearing they might die of injuries, were they initially shifted to the prison hospital. However, he was later shifted to GMCH at midnight, as his injuries were very serious.
The petitioner asked whether an FIR was registered against the convicts or a medico legal case was registered against them for inhumane assault, but did not get any response. She also went to the police station to register an FIR, but the staff there refused to take it, saying they would accept the complaint only if it came through the jail authorities. She met her son a few days later in the general ward of GMCH, where his leg was plastered and head bandaged, and he told him that he would have an operation soon.
what is the matter
* Shoaib Khan, an undertrial prisoner, behind bars since 2013 in MCOCA case
* He was allegedly attacked by the jail authorities in the week of February 3
* He was admitted to GMCH when his condition was critical.
* His mother came to know about this when she went to jail to meet him.
*At GMCH, he saw her in pain, broken leg and multiple head injuries
* He told that his jail staff beat him up for confiscation of medicine
*Dhantoli police refused to register an FIR against jail officials
* He moved the High Court seeking a judicial inquiry into the assault
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