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alleged that Chando Mehto had already died but Dineshwar Prasad Yadav was
convicted in the name of Chando Mehto and he was roughly tortured in the jail
with the connivance of the Jailor and the opponents of the victim. It was also
alleged that on 4 January 2013, the Jailor had brutally beaten the said prisoner
as a result of which he remained unconscious for about 72 hours. Thereafter
on 8 January 2013, he was taken away from the jail for being produced in the
court at Deogarh but since then the said prisoner did not return to the jail. The
complainants suspected that he might have been murdered somewhere on the
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police on false charges averring him to be one Chando Mehto. It was further
way to the court. All of them requested for stern action against the Jailor of the
Central Jail, Dumka.
4.23 Meanwhile, an intimation dated 11 March 2013 was also received from
the Medical Superintendent, RINPAS, Kanke, Ranchi stating that one prisoner
named Dineshwar Prasad Yadav, s/o Late Shri Mundal Mehto, of Central Jail,
Dumka who was admitted at Ranchi Institute of Psychiatry and Allied Sciences
(RINPAS), Kanke on 9 January 2013 for treatment had committed suicide on 10
March 2013 in the toilet of the hospital. The said intimation was registered as
Case No. 377/34/16/2013-JCD. One Shyam Sunder had also sent a complaint
praying for appropriate enquiry and action against the Jailor of the Central Jail,
Dumka regarding the death of his uncle Dineshwar Prasad Yadav alleging that
he was shot dead by the Jailor through one Bhola Pandey. The said complaint
of Shyam Sunder was registered as Case No. 189/34/5/2013 and clubbed with
the complaint of Binay Sinha and others.
4.24 In response, the Superintendent of Police, Dumka intimated vide report
dated 1 May 2013 that the enquiry conducted by the Deputy Superintendent
of Police, Dumka revealed that on the recommendation of a Specialist Doctor
of Civil Hospital, Dumka on 8 January 2013, the prisoner D.P. Yadav alias
Chando Mehto who was ill was sent from the jail with the permission of the Dy.
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