Five prisoners have died in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail. According to Kashmir Media Service, the five prisoners died in mysterious circumstances in past eight days in the jail.
Magisterial inquiry has been initiated in all the fatalities, a Delhi police official said. On Friday, the death of an inmate, identified as Vikram alias Vicky, was reported in Tihar jail No 3 while the official claimed that the prisoner was found uncon-scious in his cell and was immediately taken to a hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
Pertinently, the Kashmiri leaders, including APHC Chairman, Masarat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nay-eem Ahmad Khan, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Shahid-ul-Islam, Eng Rashid, businessman, Zahoor Watali, Syed Shahid Shah, Shakeel Yousuf Shah and Ghulam Muhammed Butt, are facing illegal detentions in the infamous Tihral jail.—INP
