- Four absconders in 24 days, but jail officers don’t get up
- Agra jail is being run by the superintendent’s spouse as a substitute of the superintendent.
- Outrage due to extreme extortion, chaos can occur in jail any time
Lucknow. Four absconders in 24 days, nonetheless jail officers will not be awake…Agra district jail officers will not be seeing any impression even after the incidents of absconding. The fearless jail officers demanded Rs 1 crore for the counting and exhausting work. Not solely this, as a substitute of the jail superintendent, his spouse is working the jail. The work of granting depart to safety personnel and assigning them responsibility is in their fingers. On the different hand, the jail authorities have maintained silence on this severe situation.
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On January 5, two prisoners escaped from Kannauj jail by climbing the boundary wall of the jail, dodging the safety personnel. Not even a fortnight had handed since this incident when two prisoners escaped from Ayodhya Divisional Jail. Ten folks together with the jailer were suspended for absconding in Kannauj jail and 11 folks together with the senior superintendent were suspended for the Ayodhya jail incident. This motion taken towards the officers and safety personnel had no seen impact on the Agra Jail authorities. Even after this, the fearless officers are busy in recovering from the prisoners.
Sources say that just lately the police arrested Vinod Swami in the crypto forex case and despatched him to jail. As quickly as he reached the jail, the officers began exploiting the prisoner. If sources are to be believed, one crore rupees were demanded from the prisoner Vinod Swami for his exhausting work. If the demand was not met, the prisoner was additionally threatened to be put in the Safai Command (cleansing the filth of the drains). Not solely this, it has not been informed that the jail is being run by the superintendent’s spouse and never the jailer. The duty of assigning the responsibility of safety personnel, granting depart and sustaining accounts of the canteen’s earnings can also be in the fingers of the jail superintendent’s spouse. The situation of spouse having command in her fingers has turn out to be a subject of debate amongst the jail workers. On the different hand, after I tried to speak to Agra Jail Superintendent Hariom Sharma in this regard, his cellphone didn’t decide up. He didn’t contemplate it acceptable to even reply to the message. Area DIG PN Pandey additionally didn’t decide up the cellphone.
When will motion be taken towards the corrupt officer of Agra jail?
Last September, officers of Hindu Seva Sansthan, in a criticism letter given to the Chief Minister and the district administration, alleged that the superintendent and jailer had indulged in looting in Agra jail. Illegal restoration of Rs 5 to 7 lakh is being carried out every day from the prisoners in the jail. In the identify of exhausting work, Rs 6,000 to a number of lakhs are being recovered from the prisoners. The canteen being run for the welfare of prisoners has turn out to be the predominant supply of earnings for the officers. To enhance canteen gross sales, poor high quality meals is being served to the prisoners in the jail. In the canteen, meals objects which were simply out there for Rs 15 exterior the jail are being offered for Rs 50 to Rs 60. Black advertising of things prohibited from coming into the jail is being carried out. Paan, beedi, masala, cigarette, tobacco, ganja, charas and blades are being offered at exorbitant costs. On the criticism, the Principal Secretary Prison additionally didn’t take any motion towards any corrupt jail officer.