Even as the state government shifted four jail staff members who allegedly facilitated some inmates to release a fake video to defame the senior jail officials in Unnao, a 30-year-old inmate of the Ballia district jail died in hospital after allegedly consuming some poisonous substance.
According to Additional Superintendent of Police of Ballia, Vijay Pal Singh, Rakesh Tewari, who was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife over dowry, took ill on Wednesday afternoon and was taken to the district hospital where he died later in the evening.
The post-mortem report stated consumption of a poisonous substance as the cause of death.
Tewari belonged to Dalai Tewaripur village in Ballia district and was lodged in the jail after being arrested for murdering his wife over dowry.
Meanwhile, after ordering a probe into the Unnao jail fake video incident, the government on Thursday shifted all the four jail officials involved in it. Jail warden Mata Prasad was shifted to Maharajganj district jail while Hemraj was shifted to Varanasi. The two jail guards, Saleem Khan and Awadesh Sahu, were shifted to Basti and Gyanpur jail in Varanasi respectively.
The government also issued order to shift the two jail inmates seen in the video clip waving a country-made revolver and enjoying a party inside the barrack. While Ankur Singh has been shifted to some jail in Western UP, Dev Pratap Singh aka Gaurav Pratap has been shifted to Purvanchal.
A video of Unnao District Jail went viral on social media on Wednesday morning in which an inmate was shown waiving a country-made weapon while other inmates were seen enjoying a party.
The Home Department claimed that their probe indicated that the firearm was made of clay and painted to look real while the food articles seen in the video clip were routine food served in the jail.