Assault inside Deoria jail: Three officials suspended, jailed don shifted to Bareilly

LUCKNOW: Three officials of

Deoria jail

were suspended for laxity in the alleged assault case with a Lucknow based businessman on Monday. The dreaded don

Atiq Ahmad

on whose direction the businessman was allegedly abducted and thrashed inside the jail premises was shifted to

Bareilly district jail

.


Those suspended include jail officials from Deoria jail- deputy jailer

Deo Narayan Yadav

, head warden-

Munna Pandey

, and warden-Rakesh Sharma. The laxity figured during the preliminary investigations carried out by the senior superintendent of

Gorakhpur jail

.

The investigation was carried out after an FIR was lodged by a Lucknow-based businessman

Mohit Jaiswal

who alleged that he was kidnapped from Lucknow and taken to Deoria jail where he was assaulted by jailed mafia don Atiq Ahmad and his aides and then also forced to transfer his business to them.

The ADG (prisons) had asked the senior superintendent of Gorakhpur jail to conduct an inquiry into the Deoria jail incident.

Sharing details of the incident, AIG (Prisons) Sharad told TOI that on the basis of preliminary inquiry conducted by Ram Dhani, senior superintendent of Gorakhpur jail, lapses on the part of three officials came to the fore. "Jaiswal should have been taken to the select meeting place and not to the individual’s barrack where he was allegedly assaulted," he added.

Sharad also said that a detailed report of the incident is awaited.