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NHRC asks why prisoners were “beaten up like animals” in UP jail by J Balaji


The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh Director-General (Prisons) seeking his report, returnable in four weeks, on allegations of three prisoners in Bhadoi sub-jail being mercilessly beaten.

The Commission acted suo motu taking cognisance of the incident based on media reports. The alleged incident took place on August 20.

The media said the prisoners concerned, who tried to escape from the jail, was caught by the prison staff and hung upside down within the jail premises and then beaten with a cane. The newspapers which carried reports as well as photographs alleged that the jail authorities had been indulging in inhuman treatment of prisoners. The reports said prisoners Chhotu, Suraj Dubey and Raj Bahadur Yadav had allegedly hatched a plot to break out of jail. Their plan was exposed, and the jailer subsequently “beat them up like animals”. Jail Superintendent Anjani Kumar Singh, who on August 22 visited the prison and inquired into the incident, said the beating of three inmates had been confirmed in the inquiry.

However, Deputy Jailer Dhirendra Kumar Singh in his statement has said he was only “threatening” them.