The Cuttack Sadar SDJM Court on Tuesday directed the Jailor of the Jharapada jail in Bhubaneswar to submit a status report pertaining to a written complaint filed by a jail inmate Sushant Dhalsamant, who has alleged that he has been illegally put in solitary confinement ever since he was shifted from the Choudwar jail on March 13.
The court asked the jailor to submit the report within two days and fixed the next hearing on Sushant’s complaint on May 19, informed his counsel PK Mohanty.
Earlier during a regular production before the magistrate on the day, Sushant verbally lodged the complaint saying he is being put under inhuman condition in a solitary confinement in the jail without access to meet anybody or participate in the reform programmes.
He alleged that the jail authorities are doing this at the behest of the Commissionerate police. Taking note of it, the magistrate asked Sushant to make a written complaint about it.
Sushant along with his younger brother Sushil were arrested by the Commissionerate police on January 29 for their alleged role in a 2013 murder case of two of their estranged associates. Subsequently, the police have arrested nearly 30 of their associates and slapped as many as 21 cases on them.
However, on a police petition citing security reasons, the court had directed to put the mafia brothers in two separate jails. Accordingly, Susshil was shifted to the Baleswar district jail and Sushant to the Bhubaneswar jail in March.