Don under vigil of drone, guards wearing body cams

Lucknow: BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari will remain under 24-hour surveillance of CCTV cameras and armed guards equipped with body cameras. In addition, a drone camera will be used for surveillance around the jail to ensure maximum security for the gangster-turned-politician who has returned to Banda jail on the Supreme Court’s order.
The state government has also posted two additional deputy jailors at Banda jail to monitor 15 armed PAC jawans who will guard Mukhtar’s barrack round-the-clock.
Senior jail officials said Mukhtar is the first prisoner in UP jail to be monitored on video wall from the prison headquarter in Lucknow.
DG prisons, Anand Kumar, said all security provisions have been made in accordance with the jail manuals and SC guidelines.
Jail officials said there has been a complete overhaul of security personnel who were deployed when Mukhtar was lodged in Banda jail in January 2019.
Similarly, all cops and jail warders deployed in the security will wear body-worn cameras in order to keep a watch on the cops and ensure that the jailed don does not influence the security guards
About 50 CCTV cameras have been installed outside Banda jail while the 100 metres area around the jail has been cordoned off.
IG, Chitrakoot Dham range, K Satyanarayan, said a PAC unit and a district police has also been deployed outside the Banda jail. A temporary police outpost, too, has been set up outside the jail.