Jail inmates escape: ADGP prisons wants to examine the role of PWD in construction of jail building…
Amritsar, Feb.03 (HS): ADG Prisons, Praveen Sinha wants to examine the quality of central jail buildings in Amritsar and the role of the PWD department for construction and maintenance of the building.
He told this correspondent that he never said that the building is weak or substandard quality but he wants to ascertain whether some lapses did occur on behalf of PWD. On Saturday night three prisoners namely Jarnail Singh, Gurpreet Singh, and Vishal Sharma had escaped and leading to lapses of security of jail in Punjab.
Meanwhile, when this correspondent contacted Chief Engineer (PWD), Arun Kumar he told, he is not aware of the issue because he is on leave from 31st December and he is not in the condition to comment on the issue but he suggested to contact Superintending Engineer for the purpose. But not to avail, Superintending Engineer refused to talk.
But Director General of Police, Dinkar Gupta had also said that escapee prisoners had taken out at least 10 bricks from their barrack wall. However, yesterday, CM Captain Amrinder Singh has ordered for an inquiry and Jalandhar Police Commissioner, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar is to investigate into the matter.
It is worthwhile to mention here that jail administration is admitting that escapees have scaled the wall of central prisons thus it becomes imperative to increase the height of the boundary wall. Police said that there was no outside help to escapees.
Meanwhile, CM has ordered Additional Director General, Praveen Sinha to revamp the security of all jails in Punjab.
