As many as six inmates and two prison officials were injured when members of two notorious gangs allegedly clashed in Ambala central jail.
About 50 inmates of Bishnoi and Rana gangs thrashed each other outside their barracks in the jail on Thursday evening. The situation is under control now, police said.
Following the incident, Police has registered cases against 84 jail inmates.
The inmates allegedly threw stones, bricks and used the branches of trees as sticks to hit each other during the clash inside the jail premises.
Police said the jail officials were injured when they intervened and tried to stop the fight.
On a complaint of the Deputy Superintendent of the jail, a case was registered on Friday against 84 inmates of both the groups at Baldev Nagar police station in Ambala, police said.
Superintendent of Ambala Central Jail, Lakhwinder Singh Barar while talking to the mediapersons said the jail authorities have filed a complaint against the members of both the groups.
The situation in the jail is under control now, he added
As per the last year’s data, there is a capacity of 1228 inmates in Central Jail, Ambala. Among the total 1124 inmates in the prison, 1167 are males and 57 are females. There are a total of 836 under trail prisoners and 388 convicts in the jail.
In a similar incident last month, a violent clash had broken out between inmates and police officers at Punjab’s Ludhiana Central Jail, leaving one inmate dead and five injured. Around half a dozen police personnel had also sustained injuries during the clash.