A clash inside Etawah jail led to the death of notorious sharp-shooter of Kanpur, Monu Pahadi aka Rasheed, while several others, including jail officials, were injured.
The injured were shifted to the district hospital from where they were referred to PGI at Saifai.
The situation could only be controlled after Senior Superintendent of Police of Etawah, Akash Tomar, rushed there with a heavy police force and used mild force to push back the trouble makers into the barracks.
Superintendent of Etawah Jail, Raj Kishore Singh, said that undertrial Monu Pahadi alias Rasheed and another inmate Munna Khalid had a tiff with warder Chunna late Wednesday evening and later they attacked him.
“When jail officials reached the spot to settle the dispute, more undertrials attacked them with sticks and pelted stones. Later the police were called to defuse the situation,” he said.
The injured were shifted to hospital where Monu Pahadi was pronounced dead upon arrival while the condition of Khalid, deputy jailer Jagdish Prasad, head constable Purshottam Singh and Chunna was stated to be critical. They were shifted to PGI at Saifai. The rest of the injured were treated at the jail hospital.
The jail superintendent said that Pahadi’s family had been informed through Kanpur police and the body would be handed over to them after autopsy.
A native of Dalelpurwa of Anwarganj area in Kanpur, Pahadi was brought to Etawah district Jail on August 7, 2016 after being named in a murder case at Anwarganj area of Kanpur in 2006.
In 2006, Pahadi was sent to jail by Anwarganj police station for a crime under Arms Act. A case of loot was also registered against him in the same police station in 2006.
In 2010, Moolganj police of Kanpur City initiated action against Monu Pahadi under UP Gangsters Act. Pahadi had six heinous crimes like murder, loot etc. registered against his name. The murder case was registered in Juhi police station area of Kanpur in 2011.