Death of two prisoners inside district jail in Jhansi led to violent agitation when other inmates of the jail went on rampage and demanded action against the staff alleging that their negligence led to death on Thursday morning. The situation could be only brought under control after senior officers reached the spot and assured of a magisterial probe and action against the staff who were held guilty in the enquiry.
Reports said that 36-year-old Rajan Pal, a resident of Raksa in Jhansi, and lodged inside local district jail died after he fell from the tree inside the jail premises on Thursday morning. The local inmates who were annoyed with Pal’s death further lost their cool when minutes after the above incident, they learnt that one more of their colleague, identified as Hari Kishen (45), was found dead inside the barracks. Though the jail authority claimed it to be a natural death but the inmates alleging negligence of the staff went in rampage demanding action in the matter. After finding the situation going out of hand, jail superintendent informed the senior officers who rushed with heavy police force and managed to defuse the situation. The inmates who not took breakfast in wake of the above incidents later took lunch.
Meanwhile in another incident in Kasganj, two sadhus were battered to death while two others were critically injured when criminals attacked them in their ashram under Dolna area of the district late on Wednesday night. Superintendent of Police, Vinay Yadav, who rushed to the spot after getting the information on Thursday morning said that the criminals attacked the ashram situated at Nagaon village last on Wednesdaynight and stabbed to death two sadhus identified as Balak Das(18) and Ram Nivash(65). Two other sadhus Ram Muni and Shiv Kumar were also injured in the attack. He claimed that the reason behind the crime is yet to be ascertained.