A woman on Tuesday met Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij at his residence during the public hearing and stated that her son, who was in jail, was not released by the Ambala Jail Administration despite being granted bail by the court. But another inmate of the Jail was released in place of her son. She further alleged that the Ambala Jail administration has also registered a “fake case” against her son.  Vij took serious note of an inmate mistakenly released from Ambala jail and asked the director general of prisons to investigate the matter.

In a statement, Vij said that he also spoke to the jail administration and was informed by them that "some other person was released by mistake" in place of the one who was granted bail. The minister termed it a "serious matter" and said because of such mistakes, anyone can be wrongly released by the jail administration

According to an official statement, the aggrieved family members of the inmate who was not released despite getting bail alleged that the Ambala Jail administration also registered a “fake case” against him. Vij then spoke over the phone with the DG of prisons and directed him to investigate the matter and take strict action against the erring officials.  “How is it possible? There is an elaborate procedure before any inmate is released. His or her fingerprints, and other details are taken and cross-verified,” he told the DG.

Vij also told him that if an inmate is released in this manner, “then this could be the modus operandi in some other cases also”.  Vij said that without the “connivance” of the jail administration, it would not be possible for someone else to be released in place of another inmate.

The family members of the inmate, hailing from Balana village in Ambala district, told Vij that he was lodged in Ambala Central Jail in connection with a quarrel case and was granted bail recently. But when they reached the jail on the day of his release, the administration told them that he had already gone home. When they could not find him anywhere, they went to the jail again but got no clear answers to their queries, the family told Vij.

About a week later, they came to know that he was being produced in court again. When the family members reached there, the inmate told them that the jail administration had wrongly released someone else in his place and to cover up their mistake, they had arrested him again in a “fake case”.